There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax. Injection anthrax ...

Several animals have been found dead due to infection by anthrax in Wyoming. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced on September 3 that a dead moose had tested positive for anthrax in Carbon ...

I had spent much of the week in a space suit. It was March of 2001 and I was in training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, a little known facility operating on a former Army base in ...

The year’s first case of anthrax in North Dakota’s cattle herd has been identified in Stark County. Anthrax is caused by the naturally occurring bacteria Bacillus anthracis and it can lie dormant in ...

Medically reviewed by Erika Prouty, PharmDMedically reviewed by Erika Prouty, PharmD The anthrax vaccine is given to select U ...

Researchers show that a cocktail of growth factors reversed would-be lethal cell damage in mice with anthrax, suggesting that this approach could be adapted for use in patients. Anthrax, an infectious ...

With the new year comes a new report of a deadly, puzzling infectious disease. In a January 1 case study, health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state of ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities increased to 84 people their count of government workers potentially exposed to live anthrax at three laboratories in Atlanta as they investigated a breach in ...