1.   An inhaled form of anthrax is the most serious and is deadly if not treated promptly.

2.   And some asthma patients can switch from oral steroids to the inhaled form, which is not absorbed as readily throughout the body.

3.   Another Bay Area firm, Inhale Therapeutic Systems in San Carlos, has joined with New York-based drugmaker Pfizer Inc. to develop an inhaled form of insulin.

4.   Anthrax that infects the skin is easier to treat than the inhaled form, which has killed a man in Florida.

5.   Bacillus anthracis in its inhaled form is almost always fatal to human beings who get no immediate treatment.

6.   A total of eight have been infected with the inhaled form, and seven with the cutaneous type.

7.   A worker at the Washington post office that handles all mail delivered in the capital has the inhaled form of anthrax, health officials said Saturday.

8.   All three tests were positive for the inhaled form of the disease.

9.   But she would be the first to have the inhaled form of anthrax, which is far more dangerous than the type that is contracted through the skin.

10.   Five people, including two postal workers, died of either the inhaled form of anthrax or the skin form.