Vozrozhdeniya Island was a major test site for lethal viruses, plague bacteria, and anthrax spores.

The Federal Reserve Board said yesterday that it had detected anthrax spores in several batches of letters and has sent about 20 pieces of mail to a laboratory for further tests. The suspect letters ...

WHAT IS ANTHRAX? Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped bacterium that typically appears–when outside a living host–in a dormant state, protected by a hard-shelled spore. Provided it is lodged in rich ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s first case of anthrax in animals in more than a decade has been confirmed, according to a press release from the Minnesota Board of Animal Health. Multiple cattle and a ...

Most Americans assume they will never be exposed to anthrax. But scientists are now warning that the deadly bacteria may be quietly lurking beneath someone's home — in their local soil. Anthrax, which ...

Do you really know what a spore is? Did you know that a spore, like anthrax spores, can survive, perhaps thousands of years, just waiting to spring back to life? Dr. Stephen Libby, a microbiologist at ...

Anthrax, which is present in many soils, can come out of dormancy and cause sudden death in livestock. Although most picture the white powder developed in a laboratory and associated with the 2001 ...

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed the state’s first anthrax case in animals in more than a decade in Kittson County, affecting cattle and a horse. ST. PAUL — Anthrax, a potentially fatal ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hannah Kinzer, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) The bacteria that ...