Anthrax—a bacterial disease with dangerous potential as a biological or bioterrorist weapon—is spreading at an alarming rate in Zambia and a handful of nearby African countries, the World Health ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Anthrax, for all the panic it's causing, has killed only one person and ...

Anthrax is caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis, a hardy, spore-forming bacterium that can survive in extreme conditions for a long time. The bacterium is highly toxic. Share on Pinterest ...

For many years, emergency service terrorism training programs have warned about the potential use of biological materials by terrorists. Anthrax threats had become the bomb threats of the late 1990s ...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 (UPI) -- A Texas laboratory worker was not wearing gloves when he contracted anthrax last month during tests of samples from the bioterrorism attacks last fall, the Centers for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Four patients infected with anthrax in Tuva, a region in Russia's ...

The federal government has spent $40 billion since the 2001 anthrax letter attacks to improve its civilan efforts to detect and respond to bioterrorist threats. The focus is on detecting an attack, ...

A rancher in Texas contracted anthrax earlier this year after butchering a lamb that died suddenly on his ranch, CDC researchers said. "This outbreak occurred on a farm adjacent to the Anthrax ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province. All ...