The ABC employee's child who has cutaneous anthrax originally received a diagnosis of spider bite. Few US clinicians have ever seen a case of cutaneous anthrax. While it is common in developing ...

A rancher in Texas contracted anthrax earlier this year after butchering a lamb that died suddenly on his ranch, CDC researchers said. "This outbreak occurred on a farm adjacent to the Anthrax ...

There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax. Injection anthrax ...

Several animals have been found dead due to infection by anthrax in Wyoming. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced on September 3 that a dead moose had tested positive for anthrax in Carbon ...

Anthrax, made infamous by a rash of mail attacks after the events of September 2001, can kill if inhaled. Scientists have known that a trio of proteins act together to invade and destroy cells, but ...

New Jersey has taken center stage in what is becoming a national anthrax scare as federal officials rush to respond to a growing number of reports of infectious biological agents. Suspect packages ...

Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- A New York Post employee has contracted skin anthrax, a television station affiliated with the newspaper reported Friday. The woman had been tested with 10 ...

While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen attempts to explore using the bacterial spores to inflict harm. They used to call it “wool sorter’s disease” or “hide-porter’s ...

Federal investigators confirmed yesterday that the strains of deadly anthrax spores mailed to New York, Washington and Florida are virtually identical as federal agents, tracing the possible path of ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Texas laboratory worker testing specimens from last fall's anthrax attacks contracted the skin form of the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

It sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn’t make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard ...