WASHINGTON -- A New York woman died of inhalation anthrax Wednesday, becoming the fourth U.S. fatality in a spate of attacks over the past month that has frustrated investigators. FBI agents have made ...

WASHINGTON -- A State Department mail handler lay ill with inhalation anthrax Thursday and the besieged Postal Service set up spot checks at facilities nationwide as ...

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OXFORD, Conn. -- Less than a day after investigators swabbed Immanuel Lutheran Church for signs of anthrax, about 250 people gathered there Saturday to remember a 94-year-old woman who is the nation's ...

The theory about how the country’s anthrax attack unfolded last month seemed pretty plausible. Yes, the story had loose ends, but the basic idea was that anyone who’d come down with the disease had ...

Local members of Congress introduced a bill yesterday to rename the Brentwood postal facility in Northeast Washington for anthrax victims Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. The measure was ...

Washington postal worker is third case of inhalation anthrax. WASHINGTON -- A District of Columbia postal worker is "gravely ill" from inhalation anthrax, a rare and lethal form of the disease, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The widow of an anthrax victim filed a $50 million wrongful-death claim with the government, alleging that lax security at a Maryland Army base allowed the theft of the deadly ...

The confirmed case involving a 51-year-old Hamilton Township, N.J., bookkeeper who contracted skin anthrax on her forehead raises the prospect that more Americans, especially on the East Coast, could ...

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 ...

In 2001, five people were killed by anthrax; more than a dozen were injured. NPR's been speaking with some of the victims and their families. They say they found out about these latest developments ...