POCATELLO — Health officials are administering preventive treatment to individuals in northern Utah after the detection of anthrax bacterium in a cow that originated in Idaho, amid additional confirme ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) has received confirmation of an anthrax positive in a beef herd in Cassia County. Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a naturally occurring ...

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 ...

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. While the infection is often treatable in its early stages, once the disease has progressed beyond the “point of no return” ...

Shihui Liu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and member of the Aging Institute, a joint venture of Pitt and UPMC Anthrax, an infectious ...