<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Anthrax</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/conditioncenter/anthrax?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><description>Anthrax</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Biohazard Procedures To Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3674-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3674-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is changing how it handles biohazard threats following a March 14 anthrax scare at the Pentagon and nearby office buildings.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scare Reveals Lack of Anthrax Tools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45125-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45125-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The anthrax scare at the Pentagon this week has prompted health experts to warn of a shortage of the critical chemical compounds used by laboratories to test for anthrax and other bioterrorism agents.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu and Jamie Stockwell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentagon to Revive Anthrax Shots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55554-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55554-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Department of Defense said use of the vaccine will be voluntary for now, in contrast to the mandatory program that was blocked by a federal judge in October.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthrax Investigators Continue to Probe in Md.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58250-2004Jul17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58250-2004Jul17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's been a long series of dead ends for law enforcement authorities still looking for clues in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.]]></description><author> Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brentwood Workers Push Lawsuit Over Anthrax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54534-2004Apr29.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54534-2004Apr29.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lawyers for 2,300 employees urged a federal judge to let them move forward with a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Postal Service of lying to the workforce after discovering deadly anthrax contamination in the plant.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthrax Vaccine Safe, FDA Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42859-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42859-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration made it official again on Tuesday: The anthrax vaccine is safe and effective, no matter how the infection is spread.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthrax Shots Require Consent, Military Told]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22760-2003Dec22.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22760-2003Dec22.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pentagon to stop vaccinating service members without their consent, ruling that it cannot require troops to "serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs."]]></description><author> Vernon Loeb</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Return Address: Brentwood Road]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39164-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39164-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was moving day, two years in the making.<br>Managers and administrative staff returned to their offices inside Washington's central mail-processing facility yesterday, the first postal employees to reoccupy the building since it was contaminated with anthrax and shuttered in October 2001....]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longer Anthrax Therapy May Be Needed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59075-2003Jul28.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59075-2003Jul28.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[People exposed to high levels of anthrax may need more than the 60 days of antibiotics currently recommended, researchers say.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Ends Anthrax Probe in Md. Pond]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46064-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46064-2003Jun28.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FBI agents found no additional physical evidence to immediately suggest any links to the 2001 case, law enforcement sources said.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson and David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tests Differ on Anthrax Contamination at Pond]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55781-2003May29.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55781-2003May29.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FBI investigators who have tested a plastic box and other equipment recovered this winter from a pond near Frederick have received two conflicting assessments of whether the items are contaminated with anthrax bacteria, according to government sources.]]></description><author> Marilyn W. Thompson  and Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ghosts of Brentwood]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4739-2003May17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4739-2003May17.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The toxic gas turned the dark blue carpet in the upstairs offices a light brown. It blurred family photos people were forced to abandon on their desks, rendering the faces ghostlike. It left a salt residue in the ventilation ducts that crews are still laboring to scrape clean, and it rusted parts in the mail-sorting machines.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Find Reignites Anthrax Probe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2003May10.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2003May10.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Evidence may suggest how an ingenious criminal could have packed deadly anthrax spores into envelopes without sickening himself, according to sources close to the investigation.]]></description><author> Marilyn W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Anthrax Patient Has Pneumonia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19961-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19961-2002Nov6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A year after nearly dying from inhaling spores, a Virginia man is in critical condition, though doctors don't know whether his illness is connected to his anthrax exposure.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health Care's New Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7395-2002Apr6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7395-2002Apr6.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the wake of Sept. 11 and the ensuing anthrax outbreak, state and local health departments are  forced to be protectors of national security.]]></description><author> Susan Okie</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maker of Anthrax Vaccine to Reopen After Renovating Mich. Plant]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20835-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20835-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The sole maker of anthrax vaccine, which has been unable to sell its products since 1998, may be ready to resume business late this month.]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat First, Think Later]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21188-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21188-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Physician Susan Matcha got the call she had been dreading just after midnight on Saturday, Oct. 20. There was a sick postal worker at Inova Fairfax Hospital, a man with a fever and muscle aches who was coughing up blood-tinged sputum. A CAT scan showed massively swollen lymph nodes in his chest.]]></description><author> Susan Okie</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Few Bugs In the Story On Anthrax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60044-2001Oct26.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60044-2001Oct26.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The great national anthrax vortex sucked in Patricia Villone Garcia sometime Tuesday evening, when she was admitted to Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring and soon became a hyped statistic, the oft-mentioned journalist who was one of roughly 40 anonymous people in the area being watched to see if the disease had invaded them.]]></description><author> Steve Twomey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[HHS Paying Two Prices for Cipro Pills]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53132-2001Oct25.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53132-2001Oct25.html?nav=rss_health/conditioncenter/anthrax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:04:41 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services buys  the anti-anthrax pill Cipro at 95 cents and less than half that price, under different programs.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item></channel></rss>