Brooklyn Apartment Tests Negative For Anthrax

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY - Tests on an apartment where a man worked on unprocessed hides obtained from the man diagnosed with anthrax last week have tested negative for the bacteria, city officials said.
As a result, three people who had been started on antibiotics as a precaution—a man who had worked on hides in the apartment and his family-have been told that they can stop taking them.
Four other people continue to take preventative antibiotics, though none of then have any symptoms of anthrax infection.

Anthrax has been found in the space in the Brooklyn space where Diomande works and the apartment in the West Village where he lives. Both locations will be cleaned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.