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 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has repurposed a 45-year-old vaccine against anthrax for postexposure protection. Anthrax vaccine adsorbed (BioThrax, Emergency BioDefense Operations) was ...

Under a pre-emergency use authorization, Emergent BioSolutons has provided the Department of Health and Human Services with its AV7909 anthrax vaccine for emergency preparedness since 2019. Four years ...

An outbreak of anthrax—a deadly bacterial disease feared as a potential bioweapon—among cattle and wildlife in Wyoming has killed dozens of animals, and health officials are urging people to take care ...

It sounds counterintuitive at the moment, but that doesn’t make it any less true: As it stands today, anthrax is not a major public health threat, says Dr. Jon Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Harvard ...

In the autumn of 2001, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, anthrax and the anthrax vaccine became prominent national concerns. The deliberate distribution of anthrax spores through the ...

(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 ...

The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and blood-filled tissues. As a public health researcher, I am fascinated by how ...