US Postal Service

The distribution of B. anthracis endospores in mailings through the US Postal Service in the fall of 2001 served to ignite public awareness concerning anthrax as a weapon of mass destruction. Deliberate contamination of the mail resulted in 22 cases of anthrax (11 inhalational and 11 cutaneous). These mailings led to five deaths among the inhalational anthrax cases and an enormous economic burden associated with decontamination. The media coverage and public fallout unveiled the deficiencies in our current risk assessment of anthrax. 

Additional patient information may be contained in a separate patient insert that is dispensed with the drug. Additional labeling may also be necessary for the shipment of pharmaceutical preparations as outlined by the Department of Transportation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the International Air Transport Association, the US Postal Service, and other local and regional authorities. ... 

Partridge, R, Alexander, J, Lawrence, T, and Suner, S. Medical Counterbioterrorism The Response to Provide Anthrax Prophylaxis to New York City US Postal Service Employees. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 41(4) 441-446, 2003... 

Fig. 2.2 US postal service stamp commemorating Phillips Petroleum Scientists Robert Banks and Paul Hogan...

In 2008, the US. Postal Service released a 41 cent stamp in his honor for his sickle cell disease work. 

The animal efficacy pathway was formed soon after the terror attacks of 2001, which included a harrowing series of incidents in which spores of anthrax were sent through the US Postal Service, killing several people and sickening many more (www.accessdata.fda.gov/ scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/ CFRSearch.cfm CFRPart=31 4 showFR=l subpartNode=21 5.0.1.1.4.9). 

But b— Mail service today is more effective and dependable —is general enough to encompass the whole passage. And the rest of the sentences support the idea that this sentence asserts Each sentence offers proof that the postal service today is indeed more efficient and reliable. Thus, the writer aims to tell us about the efficiency and reliability of today s postal service. 

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