With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

Nearly 80 beef cattle died in Wyoming due to a natural occurrence of anthrax, a bacterial pathogen that can survive in the soil for years or even decades and then spark sporadic outbreaks, often when ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities increased to 84 people their count of government workers potentially exposed to live anthrax at three laboratories in Atlanta as they investigated a breach in ...

Just as growing a particularly exotic species of plant takes the right seed, growing an anthrax culture that is virulent enough to kill people requires just the right seed stock. Experts said this ...

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans asked the Obama administration on Wednesday to provide documents related to last month's anthrax scare at a U.S. lab, where more than 80 people ...

N8Medical has entered into a CRADA with USAMRIID in support of Core Antibiotic Screening Program. Will test CSAs against biodefense pathogens including Anthrax. The expertise of USAMRIID researchers ...

Hidden arms, explosives, and other goods in cargo pose a serious threat. But dangerous pathogens also can be devastating, making their detection a top priority for homeland security. Shortly after the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Specimens of anthrax, the Ebola virus and other pathogens were listed as missing after an audit of the Army's biological warfare research center in the early 1990s, according to a ...