Alabama Postal Sites to Receive Anthrax Detectors

Anthrax detection equipment is scheduled to be installed in four Alabama postal facilities by 2006, The Birmingham News reported today (see GSN, March 29).

The equipment has been in place for a month at the post office in Birmingham, and similar technology is being placed at a Mobile postal site. The detection system is expected to be added next year to U.S. Postal Service facilities in Huntsville and Montgomery, the News reported.

Installation of the systems is part of a nationwide effort to protect the public and postal employees from bioterrorism (Walter Bryant, The Birmingham News, May 11).

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