Just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a Florida photo editor for a national tabloid was mysteriously infected with pulmonary anthrax. At first it was believed the anthrax came from a natural source. But ...

This is the same bacteria, just contracted in a different way. Pulmonary anthrax, or anthrax that has been inhaled, can cause a fever, coughing, shortness of breath, excessive sweating ...

Pulmonary anthrax is a fatal infectious disease with mortality approaching 90 percent in untreated cases. The causative agent, B. anthracis, forms spores which can disseminate via air and water. The ...

The infection happens when humans come in direct or indirect contact with infected animals. Anthrax is caused by inhaling, ingesting or by having any contact with the spores of Bacillus anthracis ...