and in horses. The machines used to process mail as it came through the system caused anthrax spores to go into the air. Then, by cleaning those same machines, the anthrax spores spread even farther and onto other mail causing twenty two other people to become sick; five of whom died. Reactions The main reaction to these events was fear that the deaths were the work of terrorists in the United States only a few weeks after the September 11 attacks, and the United States Postal System also became fearful as the letters containing anthrax were mailed through the postal service. Because of this fear, online sales of Ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic used to treat anthrax, drastically went up. People purchasing the antibiotic were paying more than ten times the normal cost of the drug. See also List of journalists killed in the United States References 1938 births 2001 deaths 2001 anthrax attacks American terrorism victims Deaths from anthrax Infectious disease deaths in Florida Journalists killed in the United States Terrorism deaths in Florida People from Lantana, Florida British expatriates in the United States 20th-century British journalists