Just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a Florida photo editor for a national tabloid was mysteriously infected with pulmonary anthrax. At first it was believed the anthrax came from a natural source. But ...

CHAT PARTICIPANT: Dr. Gupta, if you get cutaneous anthrax and recover, are you immune from pulmonary anthrax? It seems you should be. GUPTA: The whole concept of vaccinations involves exposing ...

Gastrointestinal anthrax causes initial symptoms similar to food poisoning, but can worsen to produce severe abdominal pain, vomiting of blood and severe diarrhoea. Pulmonary anthrax, the most ...

Pulmonary anthrax is a fatal infectious disease with mortality approaching 90 percent in untreated cases. The causative agent, B. anthracis, forms spores which can disseminate via air and water. The ...