The Federal Reserve Board said yesterday that it had detected anthrax spores in several batches of letters and has sent about 20 pieces of mail to a laboratory for further tests. The suspect letters ...

A recent anthrax outbreak in southern Idaho livestock has triggered concern among residents, but a local veterinarian says ...

Idaho State Veterinarian, Dr. Scott Leibsle, says the Idaho State Department of Agriculture is working with producers and ...

WHAT IS ANTHRAX? Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped bacterium that typically appears–when outside a living host–in a dormant state, protected by a hard-shelled spore. Provided it is lodged in rich ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s first case of anthrax in animals in more than a decade has been confirmed, according to a press release from the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. Multiple cattle and a ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture received confirmation of anthrax in a beef herd in Cassia County. None of the cattle entered the food supply, and there is no threat […] ...

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed the state’s first anthrax case in animals in more than a decade in Kittson County, affecting cattle and a horse. ST. PAUL — Anthrax, a potentially fatal ...

Anthrax, which is present in many soils, can come out of dormancy and cause sudden death in livestock. Although most picture the white powder developed in a laboratory and associated with the 2001 ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture has received confirmation of an anthrax positive in a beef herd in Cassia County.

Before the world had time to get its heads around what had happened in the US on September 11, a new wave of terror hit the States when letters containing fatal ...

Thousands of samples taken from the air and surfaces inside the long-shuttered Brentwood Road postal facility in Northeast Washington showed no signs of anthrax spores, paving the way for the building ...

The theory about how the country’s anthrax attack unfolded last month seemed pretty plausible. Yes, the story had loose ends, but the basic idea was that anyone who’d come down with the disease had ...