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If you receive a suspicious letter or package, call the Madison Police Department immediately at 911.
Based on Center for Disease Control Guidelines, the following protocol is to be followed when encountering suspicious letters or packages, to include those containing powders and/or foreign substances:
Do Not Panic
Anthrax organisms can cause skin infection, gastrointestinal infection or pulmonary infection. To do so, the organism must be rubbed into abraded skin, swallowed, or inhaled as a fine, aerosolized mist. It does not leap into one's body.
All forms of disease are generally treatable with antibiotics. Disease can be prevented after exposure to the Anthrax spores by early treatment with the appropriate antibiotics.
The same facts and conditions are generally true for other bacteria likely to be considered as biological weapons. For Anthrax to be effective as a covert agent, it must be aerosolized into very small particles. This is difficult to do and requires a great deal of technical skill and special equipment. If these small particles are inhaled, life-threatening lung infection can occur, but prompt recognition and treatment are effective.
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