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

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 ...

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 ...

Federal investigators confirmed yesterday that the strains of deadly anthrax spores mailed to New York, Washington and Florida are virtually identical as federal agents, tracing the possible path of ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Texas laboratory worker testing specimens from last fall's anthrax attacks contracted the skin form of the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.