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Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium. It commonly occurs in wild and domestic animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.
Anthrax bacteria are capable of forming hard, protective shells known as spores. Most infections follow exposure to such spores, which can “activate” and begin to multiply.
The outbreak of anthrax in places where it's never been seen -- newspaper offices, postal buildings and crowded suburbs -- is writing a new chapter in a disease that until a month ago had nearly ...
Since the first case of bioterrorism-related anthrax surfaced in Florida about a month ago, 16 more cases have been confirmed in Washington, Florida, New Jersey and New York City—and traces of ...
This isn’t our first brush with anthrax: We’ve been on bioterrorism alert for more than a month now, and when tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died last week from a case of inhaled anthrax ...
Anthrax, which is present in many soils, can come out of dormancy and cause sudden death in livestock. Although most picture the white powder developed in a laboratory and associated with the ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Anthrax arrived in September for the first time in 2023 when it was confirmed in a cattle herd in Ziebach County. South Dakota State Veterinarian Dr. Beth Thompson ...
After a colony of anthrax bacteria was found growing in a mail bin at the Princeton, N.J., post office last month, the FBI and public health agencies couldn't settle on which group should take ...
Editor’s Note: A new episode of the CNN Original Series “How It Really Happened” spotlights the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed Sept. 11, 2001, taking viewers inside one of the ...