Postal Facility Begins Anthrax Cleanup
More than a year after anthrax killed two workers in the main mail-handling center of the nation’s capital, U.S. Postal Service crews began fumigating the building with a toxic gas.
The 17.5 million-cubic-foot Brentwood facility has been closed since October 2001, after anthrax-laced letters to two senators were determined to have been processed there and the two postal workers died.
Chlorine dioxide gas was to be pumped into the building until today. After follow-up monitoring, postal workers could be back in the facility by late April, officials said.
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