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 ...

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 two men identified themselves as pilots when they came to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last June. One had an ugly, dark lesion on his leg that he said he ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the most part, anthrax is a zoonotic infection, and humans are incidental hosts. Human infection is ...

As investigations continue into the reported cases of anthrax in Florida, public anxiety about the bacteria is on the rise. CBS medical correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin reports. Anthrax spores can ...

To examine the anthrax cases in Florida and New York, Margaret Warner talks to Dr. Philip Brachman, Emory professor and former member of the CDC's Anthrax Investigation Program. And for more on ...

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 ...

Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams today confirmed the man had contracted the most deadly form of anthrax bacteria, but officials said they did not know how or where the man was exposed to the ...

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 ...

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, ...