by admin | Nov 6, 2001 | Health / Medicine
More tests are being run at a Kansas City postal facility where traces of anthrax have been found. State Health Director Maureen Dempsey says they are follow-up tests. No employees have shown signs of having anthrax. And Dempsey says no mail has carried the spores...
by admin | Nov 1, 2001 | Health / Medicine
Authorities say preliminary tests are positive for anthrax in some trash bags at the stamp fulfillment services center in Kansas City, a US postal service facility in a underground warehouse near the Worlds of Fun amusement park. The facility receives mail from the...
by admin | Oct 22, 2001 | Health / Medicine
The talk of a possible smallpox outbreak has some Missourians who were born in the 1960’s and earlier wondering whether the smallpox vaccinations we received still offer protection. Doctor Howard Pue of the Missouri Department of Health says it’s safe to...
by admin | Oct 19, 2001 | Health / Medicine
State Health Director Maureen Dempsey has appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, telling Senators Missouri has been planning against bioterrorism for a decade. She adds those plans took on new urgency after the September 11th attacks. Dempsey says health and law...
by admin | Oct 12, 2001 | Health / Medicine
The Missouri Department of Health reports the laboratory test checking a St. Louis man for anthrax has come back negative. The man was tested for anthrax after learning that he had been in the American Media Incorporated building in Boca Raton, Florida, during two...
