NEW YORK (CNN) --An editorial assistant for the New York Post has tested positive for cutaneous (skin) anthrax, the newspaper said Friday, bringing the number of cases of confirmed anthrax infections ...

In ruminants, the bacteria gets into the blood stream but rarely does so in pigs.Unlike in cattle, sheep and goats, anthrax has a long incubation period of about 20 days in pigs. Sudden deaths ...

Tests confirmed anthrax poisoning, said Virunga Park director Emmanuel De Merode, adding that buffalo have been killed too. The exact cause of the poisoning was not yet clear. Images shared by the ...

Roughly 50 hippopotamuses at Africa’s premier nature reserve died from anthrax poisoning, according to park officials. The naturally occurring form of anthrax took down the behemoths in the ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo — Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east ...