The anthrax scare at the Pentagon this week exposed gaps between the military’s procedures in handling biohazards and the rest of the federal government’s that could have increased the threat to public health had the deadly bacteria actually been present, health experts and federal and Virginia officials said yesterday. Health officials inside government and out said the Pentagon’s reliance on detection and response systems that are isolated from those at other federal agencies delayed Virginia health officials, the U.S. Postal Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in moving to protect the public from a possible biohazard in the mail. Full Story
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