(HealthDay)—A newly developed checklist can rapidly identify anthrax cases after a suspected mass exposure, according to a study published online March 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Nathaniel ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the most part, anthrax is a zoonotic infection, and humans are incidental hosts. Human infection is ...

A brief checklist detailing the signs and symptoms of anthrax illness can give medical personnel the ability to identify victims and “rapidly and accurately conduct mass triage” in the event of an ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies key biological agents into three categories: A, B, and C. Anthrax is caused by an aerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming, ...

"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 ...

For many years, emergency service terrorism training programs have warned about the potential use of biological materials by terrorists. Anthrax threats had become the bomb threats of the late 1990s ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is making personnel changes at the lab where dozens of scientists and staff were exposed to anthrax. Sources told ...

LONDON, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GlaxoSmithKline plc [LSE/NYSE: GSK] announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved raxibacumab for the treatment of adult and ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says approximately 75 staff working in government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax and are being monitored and ...

SKIN: Anthrax is a serious disease that can affect bothanimals and humans. It is caused by bacteriacalled Bacillus anthracis. People can get anthraxfrom contact with infected animals, wool, meat, ...