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 ...

With the new year comes a new report of a deadly, puzzling infectious disease. In a January 1 case study, health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state of ...

The U.S. military shipped a live anthrax virus earlier this year, leading the CDC to investigate whether the military mishandled other organisms that may cause the plague, according to NWR. 1. The ...

Skin-absorbed anthrax, such as in the New York case, accounts for 95 percent of US anthrax infections, but it too is rare, occurring only once or twice a year. About 20 percent of cases are fatal, but ...

"Anthrax has been recognized as an infectious disease of animals and humans for millennia," write Katherine A. Hendricks, MD, MPH, from the CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, and other members of the Workgroup on ...

Barbara Hatch Rosenberg is the proponent of a new conspiracy theory. Rosenberg, a molecular biologist leading an independent investigation into last fall's anthrax attacks on behalf of the Federation ...