A researcher at a germ warfare defense laboratory at Fort Detrick is taking antibiotics as a precaution after testing positive for exposure to anthrax spores, the Army announced. Anthrax was also ...

Spores of the anthrax bacterium have been discovered in two areas of an Army research building at Fort Detrick, Md., and an Army scientist involved in research there has tested positive for exposure ...

Every weekday, rain or shine, a microbiologist begins the morning by heading up to the roof of the Houston Health Department’s laboratory. She isn't up there for the view of the nearby Texas Medical ...