Robert Siegel talks with Graham Richards, chemistry department chairman at Oxford University, about research under way to find cure for anthrax. Richards is leading the effort. He wants to get at ...

Host Lynn Neary talks with NPR's David Kestenbaum about a report in today's New York Times which says the anthrax used in last year's attacks is less than two years old. This means whoever sent the ...

October: Anthrax is mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida. By November, five people are dead and 17 sickened. Victims include postal workers and ...

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 ...

Anthrax, made infamous by a rash of mail attacks after the events of September 2001, can kill if inhaled. Scientists have known that a trio of proteins act together to invade and destroy cells, but ...

Six months after inhaling anthrax spores, several of the mail workers who survived the deadly disease have yet to make a full recovery and are experiencing serious fatigue and memory loss. In ...

There are three types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly) and gastrointestinal (through digestion). There has been a fourth type of ...

Facts about anthrax There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax ...