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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthrax—a bacterial disease with dangerous potential as a biological or bioterrorist weapon—is spreading at an alarming rate in Zambia and a handful of nearby African countries, the World Health ...

What started as a puzzling but apparently isolated spate of anthrax cases in Florida grew more ominous yesterday when officials announced that an employee of NBC News had contracted the potentially ...

Despite all the tools of modern biotechnology, there's no quick way to to tell the difference between an anthrax attack and an anthrax hoax. Medical investigators still rely on 19th century laboratory ...

Officials are puzzled by the infection because the woman, Kathy Nguyen, was not in direct contact with anything that was previously considered at risk. She is only the second person to be diagnosed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the most part, anthrax is a zoonotic infection, and humans are incidental hosts. Human infection is ...

Anthrax is a colorless, odorless, tasteless bacterium that protects itself from sunlight, heat and disinfectant by forming a protective coat. With this coat, the bacterium is called a "spore." The ...

Origins: During the fall of 2001 the news was filled with stories of suspect envelopes housing mysterious powders delivered through the mail. Sometimes those stories proved to have something to them ...