This week’s embarrassing revelations is the news that the Department of Defense mistakenly shipped live anthrax spores to all 50 states and nine countries, many more than they had previously admitted ...

Reporting from Washington — At least 26 people are being treated for potential exposure to deadly anthrax after an Army biodefense facility in Utah mistakenly sent live samples to 18 private and ...

An Army testing facility in Utah mistakenly sent live anthrax samples without proper safeguards to as many as 51 commercial companies, academic institutions and federal laboratories, and that total is ...

Suspected live anthrax was inadvertently sent by the U.S. military to at least 51 facilities in 17 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, including the agency that provides security at the Pentagon ...

The Department of Defense says an attempt to ship inactive anthrax samples resulted in live samples being sent to labs in nine U.S. states and to a U.S. Air Force base in South Korea. Fears of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still trying to figure out how the military managed to ship anthrax spores that were apparently live from one of its facilities to more than a dozen ...

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The Pentagon added Camp Zama in Japan to the list of places that were sent live anthrax samples in the scandal over the handling of the deadly pathogens. The Pentagon added Japan Friday to the list of ...

Army Secretary John McHugh has suspended operations at four Defense Department laboratories that handle biological toxins, as the military scrambles to explain and correct problems that led to the ...