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 ...

Americans were still suffering from the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago when exactly one week later letters containing anthrax started showing up in the mail. For a country ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the inaugural “From the Cutting Room Floor” — where we take parts of interviews that didn’t quite fit in our regular episodes — we talk about anthrax. Well not exactly… we talk about what happens ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON The anthrax false alarm this week served as a reminder that federal authorities still haven't caught whoever was responsible for the all-too-real attacks in 2001 that left five people dead.