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U.S. Postal Service Better Prepared for Any Future Anthrax Attacks, Senior Official Says
The U.S. Postal Service has increased its ability to protect people against a future possible anthrax attack conducted through the mail, such as was done in 2001, a senior agency official said yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 23). A new biohazard detection system has been installed in about 100 out of 283 mail-processing facilities nationwide, with the rest set to be installed by November, said Zane Hill, who leads the Postal Service’s dangerous mail and homeland security division. “All the employees there would be protected and nobody in the public would get sick,” he told the Associated Press in an interview conducted on the sidelines of an Interpol-hosted bioterrorism conference in France. Hill also said that the Postal Service could have responded better to the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people if a system had been in place to allow for immediate coordination with experts. “We didn’t know about the science or a lot about the health risk,” he said. “We learned that as we went” (Jocelyn Gecker, Associated Press/North County Times, March 1).
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