Asthma, Anthrax and Flu Shots

Wash your hands. With soap and warm water for at least 30 seconds. Besides anthrax, you will be washing away more common threats like germs from colds, salmonella and allergens that produce asthma attacks (pet dander, pollens, mold spores).

When it comes to the mail, exercise a little caution. Here are some warning signs from the US Postal service: envelopes that are lumpy or excessively taped; hand-written with no return address or addressed to a former resident; excessive postage. In any of these cases, contact the postal inspector…and wash your hands. Oh, and if you notice any kind of powder, don’t sniff it to see what it is!

Web sites like those from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the US Postal Service provide accurate, reliable information on how to deal with a possible anthrax threat. (See my folder “Anthrax Information” for these URLs.)

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