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 ...

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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) One of the three supermarket tabloid employees who were exposed to anthrax returned to work yesterday while investigators awaited test results that might help them find the ...

The feds are getting out the check book to cover an anthrax lawsuit filed by the wife whose husband — a Florida tabloid photo editor — was killed in 2001 by an anthrax letter. The Associated Press ...

Maureen Stevens’ legal battle with the feds over the anthrax death of her husband seems to be over. Reuters reports that the widow of the deceased Florida tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens — one of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...