There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax. Injection anthrax ...

The FBI says government scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in 2001 when he sent letters containing anthrax in the mail, killing five people and sickening 17 others. Ivins killed himself in 2008 as the ...

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Evidence from the 2001 anthrax attacks is going on public display at the Smithsonian Institution. The new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum includes an anthrax-laced letter sent to ...

Federal officials believe that Senator Tom Daschle's objections to the anthrax vaccine being given to soldiers may have been a prime reason why he was targeted in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Daschle ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department corrected a legal filing Tuesday to reassert its conclusion that a lone federal scientist in the fall of 2001 staged the anthrax attacks that killed five people and ...

Science has finally spoken, and the answer is…we’ll probably never know who mailed that anthrax in 2001. Using the available scientific evidence “it is not possible to reach a definitive conclusion” ...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who was targeted in the 2001 anthrax letters, is receiving a personal briefing Thursday afternoon from FBI Director Robert Mueller about the U.S. government’s case against ...