Anthrax can be detected even before symptoms such as fever are present. Shorter time to the first result. Quantitative lethal factor measurements and analyses are completed within 4 hours.

Anthrax is One of the Most Notoriously Deadly Bioweapons. Scientists Just Took A Huge Step Towards a Cure. The use of anthrax as a bioweapon is rare, but devastating.

Wyoming’s last reported anthrax infection in wildlife was in 1956 and the state’s last confirmed cattle outbreak was in the 1970s.

Outbreaks of anthrax, considered a likely candidate for a bioterrorist attack, have surged in African countries like Zambia and Kenya and the WHO warns the deadly disease could spread further.

The Pentagon's disclosure about anthrax deliveries begs the question why the Department of Defense lab technicians' gamma rays didn't kill the spores.

"We believe, based on the evidence we collected, that we could prove his guilt to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt," Jeffrey Taylor, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia ...

The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq, or the former Soviet ...

Researchers have come up with a way to combine the anthrax toxin with a growth factor to kill bladder cancer cells and tumors.