The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq, or the former Soviet ...

New research suggests that anthrax-causing bacteria conspire with viruses to extend each other's lifespan. The work reveals a previously unknown relationship between Bacillus anthracis and viruses ...

Anthrax bacteria that cannot produce NO succumb to the immune system's attack. Stephen Lippard, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and an author of a paper on the work, ...

Where do anthrax spores come from? Anthrax bacteria live in the blood of animals. When an animal dies, the bacteria form spores, which are released. What happens when a person breathes them?

More than 80 people may have been exposed to airborne anthrax bacteria in an embarrassing mishap at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the numbers may go even higher ...

At least 26 people are taking antibiotics after they handled live anthrax bacteria accidentally sent to labs in nine states and South Korea. IE 11 is not supported.

The live anthrax bacteria may have become airborne as lab workers were transferring it from one facility to another without following the correct procedure for rendering it inert, the CDC says.

Meningitis caused by anthrax is clinically indistinguishable from meningitis due to other bacteria. One key test result is the presence of blood in the cerebral spinal fluid. This can occur in as ...

Anthrax is a gram positive bacteria which forms spores that are highly-resistant to environmental degradation. It is present across the world, but comes out of dormancy in isolated areas.

Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows rod-shaped Bacillus anthracis (yellow) and a red blood cell (red) in a monkey’s spleen. NIAID, ARTHUR FRIEDLANDER Approximately 75 researchers working ...