Anthrax has grabbed headlines in recent years for its sinister use in bioterrorism and the continued threat that it can be weaponized by groups or individuals wanting to harm and even kill people. Anthrax, however, need not be weaponized to cause havoc, and it has effortlessly left indiscriminate destruction in its wake over several millennia. It has long been a fatal disease in livestock, thought by many scholars to have been the cause of the fifth and sixth plagues in ancient Egypt in 1491 B.C. [read more]