11.   In addition, they identified a mail handler in New Jersey and two more postal workers in Washington as infected by the inhaled form of the bacteria.

12.   In many areas, mail handlers wore latex gloves for the first time.

13.   Injury rates were actually slightly higher among mail handlers who went to back school.

14.   Many officials have said the detour by the Leahy letter could explain why a State Department mail handler developed inhalational anthrax.

15.   Meanwhile, a State Department mail handler who contracted anthrax remained hospitalized and the agency has halted its internal postal system.

16.   She works a graveyard shift as a San Francisco mail handler, so anthrax poses an ever-present concern at work, she said.

17.   That would happen only if they touch letters that may have been contaminated at a local postal facility where two mail handlers have died of anthrax.

18.   The State Department mail handler who contracted inhalation anthrax went home from the hospital Friday.

19.   The unnamed mail handler, described as a middle-age woman, was in serious but stable condition, New Jersey officials said.

20.   The two mail handlers who touched the material were treated and released.