With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

Nearly 80 beef cattle died in Wyoming due to a natural occurrence of anthrax, a bacterial pathogen that can survive in the soil for years or even decades and then spark sporadic outbreaks, often when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The 2016 Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak ...

Anthrax is an infectious bacterial disease endemic in some parts of Africa. It affects people, livestock as well as wildlife. Using GPS telemetry data, a team of scientists reconstructed a special ...

Rockville, MD – Scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and collaborators have deciphered the genome of the notorious Ames strain of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus ...

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and blood-filled tissues. The bacteria that cause anthrax are called Bacillus ...

The recently documented mistakes at federal laboratories involving anthrax, flu and smallpox have incited public outrage at the government’s handling of dangerous pathogens. But the episodes were just ...

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans asked the Obama administration on Wednesday to provide documents related to last month's anthrax scare at a U.S. lab, where more than 80 people ...

+++ Embargoed until Wednesday, 02 August 2017, 19:00 CET (18:00 London Time, 13:00 US Eastern Time) +++ Joint press release by the Robert Koch Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

To enhance the early detection of novel infectious bacteria that could cause outbreaks of infectious disease and public health emergencies, a team of researchers in Penn State's College of ...