However, in both Indianapolis and Kansas City, officials said they believed that the minor contaminations could be linked to anthrax-exposed mail centers in New Jersey and Washington.
Medical authorities have ruled on the cause of death of a Manhattan postal worker whose sudden illness and death on Oct. 10 was once suspected of being linked to anthrax-tainted mail equipment.
PAGE A13 ARMY SUSPENDS RESEARCH AT LAB Army officials have suspended most research involving dangerous germs at the biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., which the F.B.I. has linked to the anthrax attacks of 2001, after discovering that some pathogens stored there were not listed in a laboratory database.
Contaminated animal hide products have been implicated in several allochthonous anthrax cases in Europe and the United States (33 – 38 ), including B. anthracis isolates from drum skins linked to a 2006 anthrax case in Scotland.
The resulting secondary contamination has been linked to two skin anthrax infections in New Jersey and is a possible -- but only possible -- explanation for the deaths of Mrs. Lundgren and Ms. Nguyen.
Sorry to shatter your dreams of joining the neighborhood co-op's Thursday night drum circle in aisle 9 but, apparently, Haitian drums have been linked to cases of anthrax.
The third group comprised domestic dog (Canis familiaris) populations living adjacent to protected areas (4 villages in Loliondo Division, 13 in NCA, and 7 from areas west of SNP), which included 169 random samples obtained as part of other epidemiologic surveys and 53 samples linked to a major anthrax outbreak in pastoralist areas in 2006.
On Oct. 4, when Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services (the C.D.C.'s parent agency), disclosed the first anthrax case, he said it appeared to be an isolated case in Florida, possibly linked to natural exposure to anthrax in the environment.
One Congressional official briefed on the case said he was not persuaded that the F.B.I. had made a credible case in singling out Dr. Ivins in the group of people at Fort Detrick who had access to anthrax samples linked to the 2001 attacks.
