As government agencies and private industry get set to decontaminate buildings of anthrax spores, they face one particularly daunting challenge. No one has ever cleaned anthrax spores from an office ...

In October 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Clearing the Senate office building of ...

WASHINGTON — How do you scrub a building with nine stories, 50 senatorial suites, 1 million square feet of hallways and paper-strewn offices, and uncounted anthrax spores? You seal it with duct tape, ...

An EPA contractor sprays a building exterior to show how to clean it if it was contaminated with a biological agent such as the anthrax-causing bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Efficiently decontaminating ...

The white chemical tanks are two stories high and protected by heated tents. Nearby, diesel-powered generators hum, powering computers and the lights for a makeshift cafeteria. In the trailers strewn ...

Health officials say the trace amount of anthrax found in an isolated part of a Raleigh postal facility poses no threat to the general public, but postal workers there are still concerned. Two tests ...

Now that anthrax has contaminated buildings from New York to Florida, health officials are confronting a vexing new problem: how to clean it up and convince people it's safe to work again. Anthrax, ...

There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; the most deadly), gastrointestinal (through digestion) and injection anthrax. Injection anthrax ...

WASHINGTON -- More than a year after anthrax killed two workers in the main mail-handling center of the nation's capital, crews began fumigating the building Saturday with a toxic gas. The 17.5 ...

There is a new weapon against the deadly anthrax bacteria. Scientists at Rockefeller University have developed a new agent that can specifically target and destroy millions of anthrax bacteria even ...

correctionA sentence in a March 26 article about the anthrax cleanup plan for the Brentwood postal facility should have said that D.C. health officials believe that Brentwood can be decontaminated ...