In the spring of 1979, on April 2, the city of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) in the Soviet Union became the site of one of ...

A researcher at a germ warfare defense laboratory at Fort Detrick is taking antibiotics as a precaution after testing positive for exposure to anthrax spores, the Army announced. Anthrax was also ...

Spores of the anthrax bacterium have been discovered in two areas of an Army research building at Fort Detrick, Md., and an Army scientist involved in research there has tested positive for exposure ...