Two police officers were taken to a hospital on Wednesday after opening an envelope that contained a suspicious white powder, the New York Police Department said, according to Reuters. The two police officers worked in the mail screening facility at police headquarters in downtown Manhattan and opened an envelope that contained an "undetermined white powder," said police department spokesman Paul Browne. They underwent decontamination before being taken to hospital as a precautionary measure in case the powder turned out to be anthrax, Browne said. The powder was not accompanied with a note. The incidents raised fears of a repeat of a series of anthrax attacks in the United States, which started one week after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
