More than 30 Senate employees exposed to anthrax

Thirty-one employees of the US Senate tested positive for exposure to a highly concentrated form of anthrax, officials said, prompting congressional leaders to order an unprecedented shutdown of some of their offices.

In New York, State Governor George Pataki said yesterday that anthrax had been found in his Manhattan office, the third time the dangerous germ has turned up in the city since it killed a British-born picture editor at a tabloid newspaper in Florida on October 5.