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Subject: Pakistani Daily Paper Says It Finds Anthrax Spores

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Date Posted: 12:49:35 12/03/01 Mon

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-attack-anthrax-pakistan.html?pagewanted=print

November 1, 2001
Pakistani Daily Paper Says It Finds Anthrax Spores
By REUTERS
Filed at 11:08 p.m. ET

KARACHI (Reuters) - The editor of a leading Pakistani daily said on Friday suspicious powder found in an envelope hand-delivered to his newspaper the previous week has tested positive for the presence of anthrax spores.

``We received a press release envelope which contained white powder...and it has tested positive for containing anthrax spores,'' said Mehmood Sham, Editor of Pakistan's largest Urdu language newspaper Daily Jang.

He said no staff appeared to have been infected, but some had been put on extended courses of antibiotics.

It is the first confirmed anthrax case in Pakistan. There have been at least three other scares, but all turned out to be false alarms.

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