The death rate for untreated pulmonary anthrax is more than 90 percent.

Soviet scientists said at the time that none of the victims had pulmonary anthrax.

Two other postal workers may have pulmonary anthrax, the far more lethal form.

Health officials said two other Brentwood workers also had pulmonary anthrax and were in serious condition.

Those queries came days after health officials reported that a Florida man had contracted pulmonary anthrax.

Both intestinal and pulmonary anthrax are often fatal if untreated.

Seventy-nine cases of pulmonary anthrax were reported, and 68 of the victims died.

Without treatment, 90 percent of pulmonary anthrax cases are fatal, and even with treatment, the disease is very hard to control after symptoms develop.

A 63-year-old Florida man who had been hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax on Tuesday died today, state health officials said.

Pulmonary anthrax occurs in people who inhale the spores.

Two workers have died of pulmonary anthrax and two others have been hospitalized.

But his recovery has helped health experts realize that with appropriate treatment, a diagnosis of pulmonary anthrax is not necessarily a death sentence.

Signs of pulmonary anthrax infection include high fever, labored breathing and vomiting.

A 63-year-old Florida man has contracted pulmonary anthrax and has been hospitalized with the infection, health officials said yesterday.

Pulmonary anthrax is extremely rare in the United States, occurring only 18 times over the past century, most recently in 1976.

Only 18 cases of pulmonary anthrax have been reported in the United States in the last 100 years, 2 of which involved laboratory workers.

Joel Eugene Willard, a 53-year old electrician, died in 1958 after contracting pulmonary anthrax.

October 15: Ernesto Blanco was diagnosed with pulmonary anthrax, and moved to the intensive care unit.

For now, Cipro is the only brand-name drug with a label explicitly stating that it is effective against pulmonary anthrax.

The initial presenting features of pulmonary anthrax may include fever, malaise, aches and pains; followed by rapid clinical deterioration.

Distinguishing pulmonary anthrax from more common causes of respiratory illness is essential to avoiding delays in diagnosis and thereby improving outcomes.

Single case of disease caused by an uncommon agent (i.e. small pox, viral hemorrhagic fever, pulmonary anthrax).

But in Florida, an alert infectious-disease specialist became suspicious and ordered laboratory tests that confirmed pulmonary anthrax in a tabloid newspaper's photo editor.

That sense of uncertainty was heightened today by the news that a postal worker in Washington is seriously ill with pulmonary anthrax, presumably from inhaling spores.

In addition to two cases in Florida, with the new case today and four earlier ones in the Washington area, seven people have now definitely contracted pulmonary anthrax.