Anthrax

St. Louis Emergency Personnel Get Anthrax Vaccine In Federal Test

Sarah Fentem

Emergency responders in St. Louis are among the first to receive the anthrax vaccine as part of a federal program to inoculate local personnel.Health…

Government, Politics & Issues

Anthrax case closed, circumstantial evidence strong

Rob Koenig

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 10, 2011 - WASHINGTON - The scenes could have come from a forensic detective TV show:…

Government, Politics & Issues

A decade after the 'Amerithrax' attacks, is the nation better prepared?

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 10, 2011 - WASHINGTON - Moon-suited investigators swab for spores in vacated suites of a U.S.…

U.S. Navy personnel take samples from a mock anthrax pile during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological (CBR) decontamination drill aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in 2007.

Health, Science & Environment

Wash U: research against bioterrorism progressing, ten years after 9/11

Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax started appearing in the U.S. mail, killing five people and sickening 17 others.The…