21.   In the New York case now in the news, an office worker contracted skin anthrax through a letter contaminated with the bacterium.

22.   In New York, a second employee of The New York Post appeared to have contracted skin anthrax.

23.   It was not immediately clear how the postal employee contracted anthrax.

24.   It would be rare for someone to be able to inhale enough spores to contract anthrax, the report said.

25.   Meanwhile, New Jersey officials announced that another postal worker in that state had contracted inhalation anthrax.

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

27.   Nationwide, eight people have contracted inhalation anthrax, including three who have died.

28.   North Carolina health officials are moving quickly to see if Bob Stevens could have contracted anthrax in their state.

29.   Other experts urged that epidemiologists consult doctors who treated patients who had contracted anthrax in Sverdlovsk, Russia, after the accidental release of spores from a biowarfare laboratory.

30.   Pecker said some readers have expressed concern they could contract anthrax through copies of the tabloids, and he wants to assure them that is impossible.