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Two postal workers died of anthrax: US

Washington Mayor Anthony Williams confirmed on Tuesday that two postal workers who died this week were infected with inhalation anthrax, which ultimately led to their deaths, CNN reported.

He said that both, working at the Brentwood facility, had tested positive after handling an anthrax-tainted letter sent to a senate office.

Two other postal workers from that facility are hospitalised with inhalation anthrax.

District of Columbia Health Director Dr Ivan Walks described another four cases as 'suspicious'.

CNN said that the health authorities are tracking another 12 individuals with 'very low suspicion'.

Walks added that all postal workers who have had contact with the back room of the Brentwood facility would be treated.

Fourteen of 29 swab tests taken at the facility came back positive, he said.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified a suspected case of inhalation anthrax in a female New Jersey mail handler, CNN quoted a state health official as saying.

Following the suspicion two New Jersey postal facilities -- the Trenton processing plant in Hamilton Township, where the woman suspected of contracting inhalation anthrax worked, and a West Trenton post office branch -- have been closed for environmental sweeps.

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