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 ...

While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen attempts to explore using the bacterial spores to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Officials investigated how a New Jersey woman who does not work for the postal service developed skin anthrax and doctors in New York City were monitoring a suspected case of the ...

Friday morning, an already anxious public was jolted by news of a fourth case of anthrax, this one found in an unidentified female employee of NBC News in New York City. The disease in this case has ...

Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- A New York Post employee has contracted skin anthrax, a television station affiliated with the newspaper reported Friday. The woman had been tested with 10 ...

Since the first case of bioterrorism-related anthrax surfaced in Florida about a month ago, 16 more cases have been confirmed in Washington, Florida, New Jersey and New York City—and traces of the ...

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 ...

It sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn’t make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard ...