Anthrax is a very rare disease, but it can be serious. Learn about the different kinds of anthrax infections and how to get diagnosed if you think you’ve been exposed to the bacteria.

Anthrax's use as a weapon for bioterrorism. In 2001, a week after the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre, five letters containing powdered anthrax were mailed to media outlets in New York.

What does anthrax look like? In its most destructive form--an aerosol sprayed into the air--it is invisible and odorless. Anthrax spores can only be seen through a microscope that magnifies 50 to ...

For more than a decade, U.S. military labs sent live anthrax to at least 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three countries, the Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday. And the ...

Anthrax is a germ that can enter the body in three ways--through the skin via a break in the skin like a cut or sore, ingesting it by eating anthrax-infected animals, or inhaled through the nose ...

Yet there are similarities. The current anthrax situation involving Dugway shipping dozens of live anthrax samples that were supposed to be dead and, as in 2007, involves failures of the current ...

The U.S. Army research facility that has mistakenly shipped live anthrax to unsuspecting labs in the U.S. and abroad for more than 10 years failed to have effective and standardized procedures for ...

Anthrax is a colorless, odorless, tasteless bacterium that protects itself from sunlight, heat and disinfectant by forming a protective coat. With this coat, the bacterium is called a "spore." The ...

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.

Ex-AG implicated the former Army scientist in the 2001 anthrax attacks. June 27, 2008— -- The Justice Department has agreed to pay former Army scientist Steven Hatfill almost $6 million to ...