The recent advances in basic and applied research of medical countermeasures against inhalation anthrax have been remarkable. Since 2001, the US government has made more than US$40 billion available ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Anthrax, otherwise known as the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is a deadly serious infectious disease that ...

Nov. 21 -- Should physicians be able to recognize new cases of previously uncommon illnesses such as anthrax? The family of Thomas Morris, Jr., a postal worker who died of inhalational anthrax after ...

New Jersey has taken center stage in what is becoming a national anthrax scare as federal officials rush to respond to a growing number of reports of infectious biological agents. Suspect packages ...

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 ...

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