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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rancher in Texas contracted anthrax earlier this year after butchering a lamb that died suddenly on his ranch, CDC researchers said. "This outbreak occurred on a farm adjacent to the Anthrax ...

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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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province. All ...

It sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn’t make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard ...

Friday morning, an already anxious public was jolted by news of a fourth case of anthrax, this one found in an unidentified female employee of NBC News in New York City. The disease in this case has ...

Susan Dentzer reports on new concerns surrounding the anthrax threat. A case of anthrax was confirmed in New York City today, and it deepened concerns about possible use of anthrax by terrorists. Our ...