The anthrax files

The locations where anthrax has been found, the three people who have died from anthrax and others found to have anthrax:

Compiled from Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times,
published October 28, 2001

NEW YORK

NBC, on letter postmarked Sept. 18, Trenton, N.J.

New York Post, on letter postmarked Sept. 18, Trenton, N.J.

CBS, office and anteroom of anchor Dan Rather.

U.S. Postal Service's Morgan Processing and Distribution Center, New York.

Manhattan office of Gov. George Pataki.

Contracted skin anthrax

Erin O'Connor, 38, assistant to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. Another NBC aide has "suspicious and probable" case.

Seven-month-old son of ABC News producer.

Claire Fletcher, 27, assistant to CBS anchor Dan Rather.

Johanna Huden, 30, assistant to editorial page editor at New York Post. Another Post employee has suspected case.

NEW JERSEY

Regional mail center, Hamilton, N.J.

Preliminary tests prove positive for anthrax in a mail bin at the Princeton post office.

Possible inhalation anthrax

Two female postal workers at the Hamilton, N.J., regional post office.

Contracted skin anthrax

Teresa Heller, letter carrier at West Trenton post office in Ewing, N.J.

Patrick O'Donnell, 35, who sorts and loads mail in Hamilton.

Another Hamilton employee, a maintenance worker, likely had skin anthrax but tests to confirm could not be done because he had already been treated with antibiotics.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Offsite warehouse that processes mail for the Supreme Court; location not disclosed.

Offsite mail-screening facility for White House on military installation; location not disclosed.

Mail processing building of the CIA in McLean, Va.

State Department offsite mail facility in Sterling, Va.

Mail room in the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md.

Brentwood postal facility in Washington.

A post office in southwest Washington.

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's Washington office in the Hart Senate Office Building, on letter postmarked Oct. 9, Trenton, N.J.

Stairway between the Hart building's eighth and ninth floors, a ninth-floor ventilation filter and in the area immediately in front of a first floor freight elevator.

Dirksen Senate Office Building, where mail for Senate offices is processed; Ford House Office Building, where mail for House offices is processed; offices of three members of Congress in the Longworth House Office Building; and an offsite postal facility where all congressional mail is processed.

Contracted inhalation anthrax

Thomas Morris Jr., 55, postal worker. Died Oct. 21.

Joseph Curseen, 47, postal worker. Died Oct. 22.

59-year-old man, a mail handler from State Department offsite mail room; remains hospitalized.

Leroy Richmond, 57, postal worker; remains hospitalized.

Washington postal worker; remains hospitalized.

FLORIDA

American Media Inc., Boca Raton, on keyboard of man who died and in mail room.

Three U.S. Postal Service facilities in Florida: two in Boca Raton, where AMI is based; one in Lake Worth, near AMI's former address in Lantana.

Contracted inhalation anthrax

Robert Stevens, 63, photo editor, the Sun, American Media Inc., Boca Raton. Died Oct. 5.

Ernesto Blanco, 73, mail room worker at AMI in Boca Raton. Released from hospital Oct. 23.

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