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The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [ 2] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices ...
Around 105 victims. On 2 April 1979, an outbreak of anthrax occurred in Sverdlovsk, USSR. It is believed that anthrax spores were accidentally released from a secret military facility. An official report stated that 64 people died during April and June. The victims died within a few weeks of exposure to the bacteria. 11 others survived.
Bruce Edwards Ivins ( / ˈaɪvɪnz /; April 22, 1946 – July 29, 2008) [ 1] was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, [ 1] senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the person suspected by the FBI of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [ 2]
Editor’s Note: A new episode of the CNN Original Series “How It Really Happened” spotlights the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed Sept. 11, 2001, taking viewers inside one of the ...
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this week that the increasing spread of mpox across the continent is a health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill ...
Five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease, with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year, the World Health Organization said ...
Frequency. >2,000 cases per year [ 8 ] Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. [ 2 ] Infection typically occurs by contact with the skin, inhalation, or intestinal absorption. [ 9 ] Symptom onset occurs between one day and more than two months after the infection is contracted. [ 1 ]
CNN briefly mentioned Tacoma in its June article, “Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano that troubles scientists most.” One expert told that outlet the volcano “keeps [her] up at night.”