An 18-year-old in Louisiana who was training to be a welder developed a stubborn cough that quickly worsened. He was soon hospitalized with pneumonia and needed a machine to help him breathe. Doctors ...

A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal investigation.

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 ...

With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) confirmed Thursday afternoon that a beef herd in Cassia County has tested ...

Despite the germ's terrifying reputation, anthrax infections on the skin are rarely fatal, and most people get better even without treatment. The most feared use of anthrax as a bioterrorist's weapon ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (KRT) ­ A Washington, D.C., postal worker was in serious but stable condition Sunday after being diagnosed with a pulmonary infection caused by inhaled anthrax, adding a ninth victim to the ...

Oct. 16 -- An old and discarded treatment for anthrax infection could be manufactured in a matter of weeks and help save many lives. The vaccine-like antidote is "anthrax antitoxin." It's cheap to ...

The HHS Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing has announced it will support work on a second-generation anthrax vaccine led by the Texas A&M University System in College ...

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 ...