While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen efforts to explore the use of the bacterial spores ...

WHAT IS ANTHRAX? Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped bacterium that typically appears–when outside a living host–in a dormant state, protected by a hard-shelled spore. Provided it is lodged in rich ...

Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) officials received confirmation of anthrax in a steer, on a premises in Briscoe County ...

Christopher Ngugi attends to one of his dairy cattle Kanguku village Muranga county. He is one of the anthrax victim which occurred in the county in February 2024. [Collins oduor, Standard] The month ...

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 ...

A look at the evolutionary war of adaptation between viruses and bacteria. — -- Anthrax may be the baddest bacteria on the block, but anthrax gets sick, too. Just like you, bacteria get the bug, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease, with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year, the World ...

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - A bacteria-killing enzyme can detect and destroy anthrax, and should work even if terrorists create antibiotic-resistant strains, researchers say. The enzyme was isolated from ...

Officials confirm a Texas steer to be the first case of anthrax this year. Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) officials ...

Scientists have identified the shape and features of the third protein that allows the anthrax bacillus to do its deadly work. While scientists have long been aware of the existence of the three ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cleanup crews pumped toxic chlorine dioxide gas into the Hart Senate Office Building for much of the day Saturday in an attempt to kill all traces of anthrax contamination left ...

Anthrax is one of the world's oldest afflictions, a scourge known throughout history for its ability to cripple and kill -- an old and hated enemy, as horrifying in ancient times as it is today in the ...