Although the lab handles contagious diseases, officials insist no one working there has ever gotten sick.
Health workers are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak, spreading panic among doctors and nurses needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said.
Hospital staff say they do not know what caused the cardiac arrests but told police they did "not seem to have originated from a contagious cause". Officials said the four babies had already died by the time police arrived at the hospital, which is in the Mok-dong area of western Seoul.
Anthrax itself may not be contagious, as health officials are pleading with Floridians to believe, but the fear of such an exotic, deadly disease is as communicable as chickenpox.
Those who are infected visited several public places while contagious, including Portland International Airport, officials said.
The deployment, 30 soldiers, is smaller than earlier ones, but continued outbreaks of the highly contagious disease have defied officials' assertions that it is being wiped out.
It was contagious but not particularly deadly, so officials were confused about how to convey its risks.
He says that if significant numbers of asymptomatic people are found to be contagious, this might prompt city health officials to proactively screen people for influenza.
That has helped health officials quickly differentiate those with Ebola or highly contagious respiratory diseases from those who have less contagious illnesses that look similar, and quarantine those who are infected, GDD chief Montgomery said.
Officials emphasized, however, that anthrax is not contagious.
