We’ve come a long way since the fall of 2001, but we find ourselves with recent widening gaps in public health readiness and mitigation,” writes Daniel B. Jernigan.

Guest Opinion The 25th anniversary of the anthrax attacks is marked on September 18, one week after 9/11. September 18, 2001, was the date the anthrax letters were mailed to their intended victims.

When the nation desperately needs help, it will be from a government that has lost the ability to provide it.

South Florida’s connection to 9/11 hijackers and anthrax attacks revisited ...

Advances in biotechnology, synthetic biology, and emerging technologies have defined the biological threat landscape over the ...

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 ...

A pathogen that symbolizes bioterrorismBacillus anthracis is the name most frequently cited as the representative biological ...

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 ...

As part of preparations for a possible large-scale anthrax attack, public health officials on the state and local levels should determine where and how anthrax-preventing antibiotics should be stored ...

Here's what you need to know about the 2001 anthrax attacks, also referred to as Amerithrax. Facts about anthrax: There are three types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation ...