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.

"Because it’s a spore-forming organism, it needs special care to eradicate it," Tosh said. Pentagon Police Force Lab Did Not Receive Live Anthrax Officials: Dozens of Labs Received Potentially ...

That's how it allegedly went down in Tuva, a republic in Russia's southern Siberian region in late June, and the bacteria that made everybody sick is anthrax, according to TASS, ...

Gruinard Island - or as it is better known "Anthrax Island" - lies off the north west coast of Scotland. It became the centre ...

Nonetheless, ATCC -- which stores in its vaults supplies of anthrax and bubonic plague bacteria, among others, at its offices in Innovation@Prince William -- has indeed stepped up security ...

Anthrax is caused by a spore-forming bacteria called Bacillus anthracis. It does not typically spread from person to person. When anthrax spores are ingested from contaminated animal products, ...

Some pathogenic microorganisms (bacilli of anthrax, Clostridium perfringens, S. pneumoniae, causative agents of plague and tularaemia) are capable of producing a capsule in animal and human bodies.

Anthrax bacteria spores lie dormant in the soil and become active under extreme weather conditions such as drought or flooding. Cattle get sick when they ingest the spores.

In 1939, Unit 731 put biological weapons into use for the first time in the attacks against the Soviet Union in the Battles ...

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