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Wash your hands after handling the mail – any mail – according to new recommendations from the US Postmaster General. This comes after a postal worker apparently contracted cutaneous anthrax not from a letter laced with a white powder, but from an originally innocent letter contaminated in a mail-sorting machine. While the risks of getting anthrax from general mail remain extremely low, I agree with thorough hand washing before eating, after going to the bathroom, and after handling the mail. Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a live satellite briefing for physicians across the nation: Anthrax, What Every Clinician Should Know. I sat in a darkened auditorium with colleagues at Stanford and watched the briefing. . .
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Alan Greene MD FAAP
Originally published: October 24, 2001
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