Six Defense Department employees have asked a U.S. appeals court not to lift an injunction blocking mandatory anthrax vaccinations because the vaccine used in the program has never been formally found ...

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 ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Washington-area postal workers have been diagnosed with inhalation anthrax and two more employees at the same facility have died of symptoms consistent ...

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 ...

The announcement brought the number of confirmed anthrax cases to 13 in the past three weeks, including seven cases of inhalation and six of the less dangerous skin form of the disease. Most are ...

WASHINGTON (KRT) — Hoping for the public’s help in solving the anthrax attacks, federal officials offered a $1 million reward Thursday. The bioterrorism scare spread to a third television network, and ...

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and ...

There was further jolting news, a disclosure from officials in New Jersey that a postal worker was being watched for suspected inhalation anthrax, the discovery of two more areas of contamination in a ...

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 ...

Facts about anthrax There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax ...