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CDC Lab Determines Possible Anthrax Exposures: Staff Provided Antibiotics/Monitoring

Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–June 19, 2014.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced today that approximately 75 Atlanta-based staff are being monitored or provided antibiotics because they may have been unintentionally exposed to live Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) after established safety practices were not followed.

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Out of an abundance of caution, CDC is taking aggressive steps to protect the health of all involved, including providing protective courses of antibiotics for potentially exposed staff. Based on most of the…

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