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Hospital Admissions During Anthrax Scare
Wednesday, October 31, 2001; Page 17 Scores of Postal Service employees and worried residents with flu-like symptoms have gone to hospitals to be examined or treated for possible exposure to anthrax. Most are considered unlikely to have conctracted the disease. Health officals said yesterday that throughout the course of the anthrax scare, 108 people have been examined and found not to have the disease. Officials said they were encouraged and offered these statistics as the reason: no new cases; 14 people with illnesses that warranted further examination, compared with 21 last week; 17 people sick but unlikely to have the disease, compared with 26 last week. Those figures and the five confirmed exposures (including two deaths) add up to 144 people known to have been checked for symptoms. Meanwhile, thousands of people have been tested and given antibiotics, and others have been urged to report for medication. Local hospitals, some of which do not release information about the number of cases or their disposition, offer this partial report on admissions so far:
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