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An eight-member team from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including two epidemiologists, along with F.B.I. agents, took samples yesterday from the Manhattan apartment of the man who had contracted anthrax, the Brooklyn warehouse where he used animal skins to make drums for his African dance troupe and a Dodge van that he is believed to have used to transport the skins, which are a suspected source of the bacteria. An eight-member team from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with F.B.I. agents, took samples yesterday from the Manhattan apartment of the man who had contracted anthrax, the Brooklyn warehouse where he used animal skins to make drums for his African dance troupe and a Dodge van that he is believed to have used to transport the skins, which are a suspected source of the bacteria. A C.D.C. spokesman, Thomas W. Skinner, said officials expected to collect more samples today. Dr. Denis Nash, an associate professor of epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, said that it was actually, he thought, quite remarkable how quickly communication had happened and information was transmitted from the diagnosing entity the local hospital, to the state health department, the C.D.C. and then the F.B.I. 