Today a Public Health Alerts report describes postexposure prophylaxis (prevention) after 13 people in Wyoming were exposed ...

The fears of many postal workers across the country came true yesterday when it was learned that two workers at the Brentwood sorting facility in Washington, D.C., have died from what is believed to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday finalized guidance on developing drugs to protect against inhalation anthrax. The guidance finalizes a draft released in 2016 and has been ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The safety breach at a government lab that may have exposed 84 workers to live anthrax centered on a pivotal lapse in procedure: researchers working with the bacteria waited 24 hours to be ...

A teenager training to be a welder contracted a rare and dangerous lung infection, prompting a combined state and federal ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An experimental anthrax vaccine that is administered intranasally, rather than by intramuscular injection, can protect against exposure to lethal amounts of Bacillus ...

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 ...

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 ...