Mayor `fine,’ set to go back to work
A smiling Mayor Richard Daley walked out of Northwestern Memorial Hospital Friday saying "I feel fine," but not before giving the city a brief palpitation. Daley was whisked to the...
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Workers get anthrax vaccine, but questions linger
Four dozen Capitol Hill workers received anthrax vaccine Thursday, the first of what may be thousands of people choosing the experimental shots as possible protection against anthrax. After a five-day...
Postal Service seeks $5 billion
Describing a deteriorating financial outlook after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and anthrax contamination of the mail, U.S. Postal Service officials on Thursday asked Congress for $5 billion in aid....
Bush names bioterror czar
In a sign of their growing search for outside experts to combat the unfamiliar foe of bioterrorism, Bush administration officials on Thursday named a leading smallpox researcher to head a...
4th death adds clue in mystery
As investigators struggled to understand the death from anthrax of a New York woman who had no known contact with a bacteria-tainted letter, scientists said Wednesday the case could shed...
If misused, drug for anthrax could carry bigger risks
As worrisome as anthrax can be, the misuse of Cipro and other antibiotics meant to fight the disease may create an even greater public health threat of drug-resistant germs, along...
Bacteria took high level of skill to make
The anthrax spores delivered to a Senate office appear to be concentrated, pure and processed to a minute size that would make them a formidable weapon, government officials said Wednesday,...
3rd anthrax case found; FBI steps up its probe
A third employee of a Florida publishing company has tested positive for contamination with anthrax spores, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday, broadening what officials are now calling a...
FBI investigates 2nd anthrax case
As evidence mounted suggesting an intentional release of anthrax spores in a Florida office building, the FBI took over investigation of what had previously been a medical mystery. Days after...
State tackles readiness for biochemical attack
After years of incremental preparations for what once seemed the remote chance of an attack with biological or chemical weapons, Illinois emergency agencies have launched urgent efforts to strengthen their...