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Officials moving furiously in New York anthrax investigation.(The Dallas Morning News)

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| November 01, 2001 | Mittelstadt, Michelle | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WASHINGTON _ The anthrax that killed a New York hospital worker is "indistinguishable" from the deadly bacteria that has surfaced elsewhere, medical investigators said Thursday.

Investigators were no closer, however, to solving the baffling mystery of how Kathy T. Nguyen became infected.

The 61-year-old woman has proven the most puzzling of the 17 confirmed anthrax infection cases to date because she is the only victim with no apparent linkage to anthrax-laced letters or the postal system. The Vietnamese immigrant died Wednesday, the fourth casualty in a month-old bioterrorism crisis.

"So far, we have found no clues to suggest that the mail or mail handling per se was the source of her exposure," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, an infectious diseases expert with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

Nor has any contamination been detected in the woman's Bronx apartment ...

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