Standard anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis, which can be contracted through skin contact, ingestion, or inhalation. Its ...

Postal workers in New Jersey have filed suit to force the U.S. Postal Service to close a regional mail processing facility until it is declared free of anthrax, attorneys for the workers said ...

The ninth known case of welder’s anthrax, and the first clinical use of the monoclonal antibody medication obiltoxaximab to ...

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 ...

Oct. 28 -- Anthrax has been discovered at a facility that handles mail for the Department of Justice, including a location that handles mail destined for Attorney General John Ashcroft, a spokesowman ...

Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Washington-area postal workers have been diagnosed with inhalation anthrax and two more employees at the same facility have died of symptoms consistent ...

Given the possible severity of anthrax infection, early and fast diagnosis is key. InBios International, Inc., a developer of diagnostic tests for emerging infectious diseases and biothreats, has been ...

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 the ...

WASHINGTON -- Doctors in New York City were monitoring a suspected case of inhalation anthrax in a hospital worker, and a New Jersey woman who handled mail at her job was diagnosed with skin anthrax ...