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

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

3.   Pulmonary anthrax is the most deadly type of infection by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

4.   Pulmonary anthrax occurs in people who inhale the spores.

5.   She added that it can take about a week for symptoms of pulmonary anthrax to become apparent.

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

7.   Still, pulmonary anthrax remains a widely used and perfectly acceptable choice.

8.   Symptoms of pulmonary anthrax usually develop within seven days of infection.

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

10.   The two workers who are hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax are at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.