Anthrax Stories Hit Home On Hill and in the Media.

Multichannel News, October, 2001 by Hearn, Ted

America's top media companies were thrown squarely into the middle of the terrorism story last week, as a CBS News employee and the infant son of an ABC News producer contracted the skin form of the disease -- days after an NBC News employee was diagnosed with anthrax. The latest anthrax case to affect media companies came at the New York Post on Friday.

Last Thursday, when CBS officials said that an assistant to CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather had contracted cutaneous anthrax. That same day, authorities announced that a second postal worker in Trenton, N.J., had contracted cutaneous anthrax, the skin form of the disease. Anthrax-laced letters that were sent to NBC News and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) had been mailed from Trenton....

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