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 ...

Anthrax is a zoonotic bacterial disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium commonly found in the soil of endemic areas. It is primarily a disease of herbivorous ...

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Today a Public Health Alerts report describes postexposure prophylaxis (prevention) after 13 people in Wyoming were exposed ...

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1. Why is anthrax vaccination needed? Anthrax vaccination is needed because the threat from anthrax weapons is real and lethal. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff named anthrax as the #1 ...

Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the "point of no return" after just a few ...

New research has revealed how humans evolved greater resistance against anthrax multiple times during history: when they developed a diet of more ruminants, and when agricultural practices took hold.

The newly described bacterium is of significance in terms of environment, ecology and animal health. There is also the possibility that the organism could cause harm to people. The scientists behind ...