The FBI says government scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in 2001 when he sent letters containing anthrax in the mail, killing five people and sickening 17 others. Ivins killed himself in 2008 as the ...

There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax. Injection anthrax ...

After four years pursuing one former Army scientist on a costly false trail, FBI agents probing the deadly anthrax letters of 2001 finally zeroed in last year on a different suspect: another Army ...

Americans were still suffering from the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago when exactly one week later letters containing anthrax started showing up in the mail. For a country ...

Survivors of the anthrax attacks and relatives of the victims expressed relief today that the long-running case appears finally to be closed, but they wondered about questions that may never be ...

As grim federal officials warned Americans to be alert for terrorist attacks in the next few days, the spreading scourge of anthrax touched victims outside the Postal Service, the government and the ...

"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 ...

N E W   Y O R K, Oct. 24 -- Long before anyone could imagine that anthrax attacks would begin appearing in the United States, Jenny Enoch was serving at a U.S. Air Force base in Kuwait, rolling ...