Following the anthrax mail attack on the eastern United States in September 2001, emergency response organizations across the country were inundated with “white-powder” incidents. All but a few of the ...
An EPA contractor sprays a building exterior to show how to clean it if it was contaminated with a biological agent such as the anthrax-causing bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Efficiently decontaminating ...
The microorganism that causes anthrax, the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, has infected people and animals since ancient times. Even though anthrax is rare, it is a severe infectious disease with a ...