This is just in from CNN.

Apparently Anthrax was found at a facility near WOF in KC. Here is the entire report from KCTV5

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KANSAS CITY, MO, Associated Press -- Preliminary tests at a Kansas City postal facility found anthrax spores, health officials said Wednesday night.

"I want to stress that there are no individuals that are infected, that we are taking more precautionary and prudent measures," said Dr. Rex Archer, director of the Kansas City. Mo. Health Department.

The Centers for Disease Control is planning further testing on the samples to confirm the presence of anthrax.

The spores were found at Stamp Fulfillment Services, which received mail from the Brentwood postal facility in Washington, D.C.

However, the positive tests involved trash bags that contained garbage from the Kansas City facility.

Manager Gary Stone said it's not clear where the anthrax that produced the positive test could have come from. Two Brentwood employees have died of inhalation anthrax, and the center has been closed.

Stamp Fulfillment Services marks mail as "canceled" for stamp collectors.

Stone said the general public is not in danger from the anthrax found at the facility.

The anthrax "did not come through the mail stream, with any letters that might end up in your home," Stone said.

The facility, near the Worlds of Fun theme park, had been tested for anthrax spores Sunday as a precaution. It is now closed.

Three specialists from URS Corp. of San Francisco, dressed in biohazard suits, took samples from various areas in two postal centers Sunday.

Last week, the centers' 200 workers were advised to take antibiotics as a precaution. About 50 workers were tested Friday for possible anthrax contamination.

On Wednesday night, health workers were interviewing postal workers to ask about anthrax symptoms, and to tell them to contact their doctor so they can take preventative medication.

Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

Nowhere in the article did it mention WOF.

"The facility, near the Worlds of Fun theme park, had been tested for anthrax spores Sunday as a precaution. It is now closed. "

Oops, must have missed that part 'eh?

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

I need to get better glasses

no worries mate, honest mistake.

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

I know that I would not want a park that I was with to be mentioned in an article like that. It makes it sound like the park was also hit.

Now this has to be one of the best examples of amusement park bashing by the media I have ever seen!

Why did they bring WOF, a park that had nothing at all to do with the incident into the story? It is nothing more than an attempt to make people think "Oh, I don't want to go to that park, there could be antrax there!"

And I thought they were over the amusement industry bashing too!

Richard

Well the park is closed for the season, so it won't hurt attendance any - there won't be any at all LOL - I think that they were just trying to give a reference of where the building is. It is true that the place that had the Anthrax is almost right next to WOF. However that doesn't mean the park has it.

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

Yes really, just another way the media just has to make amusment parks out to be the bad places of the world. I am getting sick of this. Hearing all of the bashing of parks. Sometimes the media can be so dumb!

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The College of William and Mary Class of 2009
Delta Chi - ΔΧ

The article was not intended to bash the park in any way, like I said before, this was just to help people visualize where this building was. However, this doesn't help the park that gets a lot of bad press here of late.

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

whoa there horsy... where in the 1st quote does it bash WoF one bit? at all???????? like the dude said above this its just a reference point... they could have said "The facility, near the blehblehbleh city hall, had been tested for anthrax" but manymanymany more people know where WoF is than the latter... dang... just take 2 secs and think before bashing a article (or anything) because maybe its not what YOU think it is...

while on the subject of ranting i hate it when people say that "ooh i was on so and so coaster and on the back end i saw a pile of dirt, i wonder if so and so park is getting a new giga coaster? or maybe a so and so inverted coaster with whatever 5 inversions?"... cause maybe its just a plain pile of dirt!! (a little exaturated but yea) ;0

party on

Just when I thought the media had bashed amusment parks in every way possible, I see this. Why was it nessecary to mention WoF?

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Aaron Cedoras: Thrillnetwork Story Editor
"Dead men tell no tales..."

I think they're just using WoF as a reference point. Instead of just saying "Stamp Fulfillment Services" - no-one will know where this is. So they included WoF as a geographical marker to give people an idea of the location. That's all; they would have used a shopping mall, or a sports stadium, if they had been close by.

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Andy Rathe

Ok guys, the amount of anthrax found wouldn't even give you a blister. Please keep this in proportion. As for the WOF reference, the stamp place is located in a cave under the park. Hunt Midwest used to own WOF and they own those caves where businesses have their operations. Everyone knows where WOF is, even ones who don't go to the park, this was just to help people locate where the facilities are. Do you think anyone would have a clue if they said the facility was located on Parvin Road? Probably a few, but not nearly as many as if you said WOF. If you want to be completely correct about the statement, the building is closer to OOF than WOF.

D

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DHollon - MidwestInfoGuide.COM

are you reading any of the other posts in here? or just posting with your eyes closed