In the spring of 1979, on April 2, the city of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) in the Soviet Union became the site of one of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The 2016 Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak ...

WHAT IS ANTHRAX? Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped bacterium that typically appears–when outside a living host–in a dormant state, protected by a hard-shelled spore. Provided it is lodged in rich ...

Passengers on a cross-country Alaska Airlines jet spent the last 90 minutes of their flight Tuesday fretting about possible exposure to anthrax, after some unidentified powder was found in a bathroom.

It sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn’t make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard ...

Researchers at Drexel University’s C. & J. Nyheim Plasma Institute are modifying an air sterilization system they created to combat the threat of anthrax attacks post-9-11 in hopes it can now help to ...

A mail handling system to reduce anthrax exposure, a product that probably would have seemed odd and unnecessary a couple months ago, is now being distributed by a Buffalo company. The "Safe Mail" air ...

WASHINGTON -- Some 32,000 people have been prescribed antibiotics in the anthrax crisis, 5,000 of whom really needed them and thus must take the pills a full 60 days, health officials said Thursday.