1.   Four Mexico City police officers were treated in a local hospital after handling suspicious envelopes that contained a white powder that turned out to be rat poison.

2.   The operator asked whether he had actually handled the envelope, and Morris said he had not but had been nearby.

3.   Then they said postal workers handling sealed envelopes could not contract inhalation anthrax.

4.   They never treated the people who were around this particular individual and the supervisor who handled the envelope.

5.   Why were Capitol-area postal workers hit harder than their New Jersey counterparts, who handled the envelope first?

6.   Five people who handled the envelope received special antibiotic treatments as a precaution, and the office building was closed on Wednesday.

7.   Seven of them were officials at the Tourism Ministry who handled an envelope suspected to contain a powdery substance, ministry spokesman Nurettin Ozkose said.

8.   The two postal workers had been admitted to hospital on Monday, complaining of nausea after they handled an envelope containing the brown powder.