“I have never heard of the soldiers being attacked with anthrax. We need to question the military’s reasons for the vaccine. We need to demand answers when soldiers are coming home sick from ...

The FBI's forensic investigation, which relied heavily on comparative genomics, pinpointed the source of the anthrax—a flask in the lab of U.S. Army scientist Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense ...

The anthrax vaccine is given to select U.S. military personnel to protect them from possible exposure to anthrax, ...

That scientist, Bruce Edwards Ivins, was briefly considered a suspect early in the investigation but was dismissed, because for years he had been working on an anthrax vaccine for the Army — he was a ...

A US Army lab shipped live spores of the deadly bacterium because of improper irradiation protocols, a Department of Defense review has found. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021.

Questions have arisen about why United States Forces Korea (USFK) has established a lab at Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, and ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter made an official apology Saturday after a live anthrax sample was mistakenly shipped to a U ...

including anthrax, cholera, typhoid, and plague. As many as 10,000 people were killed. In active military campaigns, several hundred thousand people—mostly Chinese civilians—fell victim.