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In First Anthrax Case Overseas, Spores Found in Package Mailed to Kenya
Thursday, October 18, 2001
(7:13 PM ET)
By Andrew England / The Associated Press

The package had been mailed via Express Mail Service on Sept. 8 from Atlanta and was received Oct. 9, Ongeri said. It was opened two days later.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- AP
The U.S. anthrax scare was officially exported overseas Thursday, with Kenyan officials saying bacterial spores were found in a package of cloth samples mailed to a Nairobi doctor from a relative in Atlanta.

While dozens of cases of suspicious powders continued to crop up Thursday from China to France to Germany, the package in Nairobi was the first piece of confirmed anthrax-tainted mail received outside the United States since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The doctor and four family members "may have come into contact" with the spores when the package was opened on Oct. 11, Health Minister Sam Ongeri said. Tests were done, but the family was "not in danger," he said.
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This one screams al Qaeda -- and you just know there are more out there,
Dan