"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Anthrax, otherwise known as the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is a deadly serious infectious disease that ...

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 ...

Nov. 21 -- Should physicians be able to recognize new cases of previously uncommon illnesses such as anthrax? The family of Thomas Morris, Jr., a postal worker who died of inhalational anthrax after ...

Federal doctors are working around-the-clock to determine how many people with suspicious symptoms really have anthrax. Because anthrax symptoms are a lot like flu symptoms, those cases are also ...

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 ...

Several animals have been found dead due to infection by anthrax in Wyoming. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced on September 3 that a dead moose had tested positive for anthrax in Carbon ...

New Jersey has taken center stage in what is becoming a national anthrax scare as federal officials rush to respond to a growing number of reports of infectious biological agents. Suspect packages ...

Two more workers at a Ukrainian farm have been hospitalized with anthrax symptoms, joining another worker who was reported ill this week, officials said Friday. Another 30 workers of the Rosiya farm ...