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 ...

An Army testing facility in Utah mistakenly sent live anthrax samples without proper safeguards to as many as 51 commercial companies, academic institutions and federal laboratories, and that ...

The type of anthrax currently making the rounds of New York media outlets is contracted by touching the spores. It is easily treated with antibiotics and rarely kills. The inhaled form ...

The Department of Defense says an attempt to ship inactive anthrax samples resulted in live samples being sent to labs in nine U.S. states and to a U.S. Air Force base in South Korea. Fears of ...

Anthrax, which is present in many soils, can come out of dormancy and cause sudden death in livestock. Although most picture the white powder developed in a laboratory and associated with the 2001 ...

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 an infectious disease that’s caused by bacteria. It’s very rare in the United States, but it can be very serious. It usually only affects farm animals like cows and sheep.

151; -- Eighteen laboratories in nine states have begun turning over samples of anthrax to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine if they contained live anthrax ...

Seven days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, anonymous letters laced with deadly anthrax spores began arriving at media companies and congressional offices. Over the ensuing months ...

This letter mailed to Senator Patrick Leahy's office contained anthrax. Courtesy of the FBI Envelopes and other artifacts from the 2001 anthrax attacks are on view in “Behind the Badge ...