With the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) “super bugs” the need for new bactericidal approaches is growing in urgency. Compounding the threat of MDR, is the rise of antibiotic resistance in ...

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 ...

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

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

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

POCATELLO — Health officials are administering preventive treatment to individuals in northern Utah after the detection of anthrax bacterium in a cow that originated in Idaho, amid additional confirme ...

A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation.

To examine the anthrax cases in Florida and New York, Margaret Warner talks to Dr. Philip Brachman, Emory professor and former member of the CDC's Anthrax Investigation Program. And for more on ...

Why anthrax? From the start of the modern era of bioweaponry, Bacillus anthracis has held a unique appeal for those seeking to militarize microbes. Although Japan's Air Force scattered millions of ...

For many years, emergency service terrorism training programs have warned about the potential use of biological materials by terrorists. Anthrax threats had become the bomb threats of the late 1990s ...