~ Terrorist use of disease agents looms more and more in America's fears. AIRO, Egypt -- The bacteria lie dormant, freeze-dried in sealed ampules, in a refrigerator on a teeming university campus ...

Lab tests of soil samples taken from a Frederick pond that the FBI drained in June have shown no traces of anthrax bacteria, law enforcement sources said, a disappointment to authorities who were ...

As investigators search for sources of the anthrax that has menaced people in Washington, New York and Florida, they confront a vast array of possibilities. The number of places to look seemed to ...

FREDERICK, Md. -- Security has improved at an Army laboratory that works with anthrax since the deadly microbes were mailed to two senators, but during much of the 1990s, it was not stringent enough ...

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. While the infection is often treatable in its early stages, once the disease has progressed beyond the “point of no return” ...

In the wake of disclosures that top government labs mishandled anthrax, smallpox and avian flu, U.S. health authorities are considering the once unthinkable: cutting the burgeoning number of labs ...

An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, the country's parks authority said on Tuesday. (Phys.org)—Anthrax has the ...

Christus St. John Hospital locked its doors for about an hour this morning to check out an anonymous warning that the Clear Lake hospital had been contaminated with anthrax. Nassau Bay police said a ...

At least 50 hippos have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one of Africa's great lakes. That's according to ...

Drying and refining anthrax spores into particles readily inhaled, and then engineering equipment to spread them extensively, is a formidable challenge, U.S. congressional researchers noted in a 2004 ...