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27 maj 2015 · The U.S. military accidentally shipped a live sample of anthrax. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.
15 lip 2014 · In a memo prepared for a congressional hearing this week, the USDA says it had to track down missing anthrax containers and found the infectious bacteria “stored in unlocked refrigerators in an...
28 lip 2016 · Anthrax, an acute infectious disease, has three main types: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs, the most deadly) and gastrointestinal (through digestion). Scholars...
10 kwi 2019 · Anthrax outbreaks in animals, like one currently happening in Kenya, can threaten human health. A new paper describes exactly how that happens and what needs to be done to prevent an anthrax ...
11 lip 2014 · It determined that while it is “not impossible” that the staff was exposed to viable B. anthracis (anthrax), it is “extremely unlikely” that this happened.
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [1] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The intentional release of Bacillus anthracis in October 2001 greatly challenged the U.S. public health system. Collaborating with partners in other federal, state, and local health agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to these bioterrorism events by relying on experience investigating public health aspects of anthrax over the past 50 years .
