Washington - In a chilling 911 call just hours before he died, a Washington mail sorter told a dispatcher that he suspected he had been exposed at work to an envelope containing lethal anthrax spores.
Thomas Morris Jr. said he felt like he was "about to pass out" and that his symptoms fit "almost to the T" a description of the disease distributed in a notice to postal employees. But Mr Morris' supervisors had told him there was little reason to believe workers were in danger of contracting the disease, and his doctor advised him his illness was likely caused by a virus.