Anthrax spores, which killed a man in Florida last week, gave a mere sore to an NBC employee in New York, who is recovering. Experts say the same spores can cause different types of infection, ...

Hippopotamuses. People usually think of them as massive, lumbering hulks of plant-eating muscle. Reports do crop up of hippos snacking on crocs or chowing down on a drowned wildebeest. Those anecdotes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A deadly anthrax outbreak in Zambia was caused by contact with meat from hippopotamuses that had died of the ...

Anthrax, caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is a zoonosis affecting animals and humans globally. In the United States, anthrax outbreaks occur in wildlife and livestock, with ...

Areas contaminated with anthrax germs lure grazing animals like zebras and wildebeest, and these animals could spread the bacteria, leading to new rounds of infections, researchers say. This research ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early concerns of an anthrax outbreak were sparked by the deaths of dozens of buffaloes and hippos. More than 20 ...

The director of the lab responsible for the anthrax exposure at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Atlanta-based Roybal campus was reassigned. The controversy erupted last week when as ...

Thumbi Mwangi receives funding from Wellcome Trust, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Health Organization. Meat lovers in Thika, north east of Nairobi, are worried. In just one week, eight ...

LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- An anthrax contamination linked to heroin has killed nine people in Scotland and infected a man in England, authorities said. The latest victim is a man now being treated in a ...