Despite the recent anthrax frenzy, a more deadly disease could prove fatal to many Americans. This disease is one that has killed over 600,000 people nationwide in its last three major epidemics and ...

There is growing panic in Lyantonde District following an outbreak of the contagious anthrax disease that has reportedly begun claiming human lives. According to the district health department, four ...

There's an anthrax outbreak in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Laboratory tests by the National Veterinary Research Institute laboratory confirmed that there's an outbreak of anthrax in Nigeria. The Federal ...

Five members of one family in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa have been hospitalized with symptoms of anthrax after slaughtering cattle, the Health Ministry says. A ministry statement issued on ...

"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—a bacterial disease with dangerous potential as a biological or bioterrorist weapon—is spreading at an alarming rate in Zambia and a handful of nearby African countries, the World Health ...

So after the 2001 attacks, more than 10,000 people who may have been exposed to the spores, notably employees of the U.S. Senate and some postal workers, were offered a 60-day course of ciprofloxacin ...

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 ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture has confirmed anthrax in a beef herd in Cassia County.

An anthrax case in the Cassia County beef herd poses minimal public risk, according to the Idaho State Department of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Cipro is not the only antibiotic that fends off anthrax. Two other drugs are widely available, have fewer side effects and are much cheaper, a message the government is struggling to ...