If inhaled, anthrax spores can germinate and lead to infection within one to 60 days. This is pulmonary anthrax, which usually causes death.

An Oct. 30 article gave incorrect information about New Jersey postal workers who have contracted anthrax. The two workers with pulmonary anthrax are employed at a central mail-processing facility ...

What a difference a month makes. When a tabloid photo editor died of pulmonary anthrax in early October, not even the tabloids conjured a terrorist plot. And when it turned out there was a ...

The latest victim was a 61-year-old female hospital worker in New York City who has been diagnosed with pulmonary anthrax and was clinging yesterday to life on a respirator.

The largest known epidemic of pulmonary anthrax occurred in Sverdlovsk (Jekaterinburg), USSR in 1979. Anthrax spores accidentally were released from a military microbiology laboratory infecting 96 ...

Those with pulmonary anthrax are at risk of respiratory collapse and suffer the highest mortality rate of any anthrax victims, with 92 percent of cases resulting in death.

Oct. 5 -- A 63-year-old Florida man hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax is an "isolated case" with no evidence of terrorism, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said. "Officials are ...

Pulmonary anthrax is a different matter; one study found 18 cases in the U.S. between 1900 and 1978. In the medical literature it's known as "wool-sorters disease." ...

Early symptoms of pulmonary anthrax are mild chest congestion, nausea, and shortness of breath. Slowly, it leads to coughing blood and painful swallowing.

The New York anthrax case sent another chill through this already-shaken city. But how worried should New Yorkers and the rest of the country be? Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National ...