This video shows the cleanup experience from the 2001 attacks, in which letters containing Anthrax spores were mailed to media outlets and two Senators, has demonstrated that buildings in the civilian sector can be effectively remediated and returned to productive use. This clip shows the remediation process for the US Senate Hart Office Building using chlorine dioxide gas. Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium. Anthrax has been developed as a biological weapon by many nations, including Japan, Germany, Great Britain, United States and Russia. Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a series of letters were mailed anonymously to several news media companies and government officials in the United States. The letters contained a high-grade, finely textured version of anthrax later identified as identical to the Ames strain. An epidemic ensued in which 22 individuals were sickened by the anthrax bacteria. Five people died from inhalation anthrax. For an excellent review of the experience remediating buildings learned from the 2001 anthrax attacks, read the 2003 EPA report by Dorothy A. Canter, Ph.D., US Environmental Protection Remediating Sites with Anthrax Contamination: Building on Experience, available at: epa.gov/nhsrc/pubs/paperAnthrax Remediation020607.pdf .
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:03:45 +0000
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