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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...