This is pulmonary anthrax, which usually causes death. Less lethal forms include cutaneous infections, which occur if anthrax spores come in contact with a cut or other opening in the skin.

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 terrorist ...

Anthrax can also be inhaled into the human respiratory tract — this pulmonary method of infection is most common among those who process wool and animal hides, according to the U.S. National ...

2001-10-23 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco, CA, USA-- My patient is a 37-year-old man employed as a city planner and suffering from epididymitis, a painful infection in his scrotum. After considering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as it seemed the health-care system had done a praiseworthy job of dealing with a biological attack, we've suffered a new round of casualties, this time among postal workers. Two Washington ...

The gentleman, unfortunately, who expired with pulmonary anthrax or inhalation anthrax, and the other cases that had cutaneous anthrax, or anthrax just isolated from the nose and other parts of ...

The anthrax that arrived in the office mail of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle on Monday is a highly potent, finely milled variety that spreads easily by air and is similar to the spores ...

Two postal workers died of respiratory failures that authorities strongly suspect were caused by inhaling anthrax from mail passing through a Washington, D.C., sorting facility, raising questions ...