Hart Senate Office Building Decontaminated

摘要

Chlorine dioxide gas was pumped into the offices of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.! in the Hart Senate Office Building on Dec. 1 during one of the final steps of EPA's anthrax decontamination efforts on Capitol Hill (C&EN, Nov. 26, page 24). Anthrax spores initially were detected in several Capitol office buildings after an anthrax-laden letter, addressed to Daschle and opened by an aide on Oct. 15, had passed through the congressional mail system. Some buildings were temporarily closed for testing and some sections of the buildings subsequently decontaminated using chlorine bleach and an antimicrobial foam.