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Re: High risk profession - Internet companies

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Thu Oct 25 00:32:39 2001

Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:31:30 -0700
From: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:39:18AM -0400, Sean Donelan stated:
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> I did not find an official source on the CDC or Washington DC Department
> of Health web sites.  The Washington Post has a story today which
> includes Internet companies in a list of high-risk professions.  I
> do not know if there is any specific information for including Internet
> companies in the list.
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42450-2001Oct23.html
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>   "Anyone with flu-like symptoms -- an elevated white blood count, coughs,
>   body aches, respiratory problems -- would be given antibiotics if they
>   work in a high-risk profession or had "credible" exposure to anthrax
>   bacteria. That includes people who work at postal facilities, general
>   mailrooms, media organizations, government offices or Internet
>   companies."

Somebody should notify the Post that one cannot contract this particular ty=
pe
of virus from an email. :) (Not with current MIME technology anyway ...)

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