Anthrax Is Found in 2 Connecticut Residents, One a Drummer
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Two people in Danbury, Conn., have contracted anthrax, probably from animal hides brought from Africa to make drums.
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BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., dedicated a 150,000-square-foot facility in Frederick that is designed to produce 100 million anthrax vaccine doses when it becomes fully operational in two years.
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A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee.
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A common antibacterial and antifungal ingredient in mouthwashes and toothpaste also can also guard against skin cancer. The surprise finding was presented Oct. 19 at the
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Authorities are testing a suspicious powder mailed to the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia to determine whether it is anthrax, officials said Monday after the second such scare at a U.S. mission in Asia within a week.
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DOVER- There are some big changes for members of the military. A federal judge has put a hold on the anthrax vaccine. He says the Food and Drug Administration did not get enough public comment before they labeled the shot safe and effective.
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Jakarta (VNA) - The Indonesian government has set up a post to monitor the spread of anthrax at Babakan Madang village, Bogor, in West Java, where there has been an outbreak of anthrax, said Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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ELKINS, W.Va. -- Centers for Disease Control investigators have been in the state this month trapping mice and interviewing people in an attempt to determine how two men contracted the deadly hantavirus disease in July.
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FBI agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks searched the homes of a doctor who, days after the first anthrax mailings, had applied for a patent for a system to identify chemical and biological attacks.
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Two people in southeastern Romania are being treated in hospital for anthrax, an animal disease which can be transmitted to humans, health officials said on Monday.
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The government is closely monitoring several provinces prone to Anthrax and will provide free medication for those that contract the disease.
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(Hartford-AP, Aug. 25, 2004 12:13 AM) _ A new state medical examiner has performed several autopsies on homicide victims without having a Connecticut medical license as required by law.
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NEW YORK  - Airborne fungi are increasingly  being seen as a risk factor for asthma and now, new research  indicates that high levels of such fungi are found in inner  city homes with cats, cockroaches, and dampness problems.
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Synthetically produced antibodies that target a component of the anthrax toxin may reduce illness and death due anthrax exposure, even after shock has set in, rat studies indicate.
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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A national lab is developing lunch-box-size pathogen sniffers that can spot anything from anthrax to a nasty flu. By Luke O'Brien.