Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
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Abstract
In April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official Soviet documents reported sixty-four human deaths resulting from the ingestion of tainted meat sold on the black market, but U.S. intelligence sources implied a different story, and the lack of documentation left unresolved questions. In her investigation of the incident, the author of this book unravels the mystery of what really happened during that tragic event in Sverdlovsk. Anthrax is a virulent and deadly bacteria whose spores can remain in soil for as long as seventy years, killing grazing animals and putting humans in jeopardy of eating infected meat. Contemporary concern is more centered on anthrax as an airborne biological weapon whose inhaled spores can result in ninety percent mortality for those infected. As part of a team of doctors and researchers, the author traveled to Russia in 1992 to determine the cause and extent of the epidemic, and her narrative transforms a case of epidemiological investigation into a politically charged mystery. She creates a sense of immediacy and drama with her insider's account of the team's investigative work—the analysis of pathology photos and slides, meetings with political and public health officials, the retrieval of essential medical data—and reveals the subjective side of science as she conducts interviews with afflicted families, visits sites, and interacts with those suspected of clouding the truth.
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Front Matter
- 1 Anthrax: Accursed Fire and Biological Weapon
- 2 Moscow: Fragments of Evidence
- 3 Moscow: conflicting visions
- 4 In the Urals: The Quest Begins
- 5 Autopsy Visions
- 6 The Community Of the Dead: Vostochniy Cemetery
- 7 Abramova's Treasure
- 8 To Chkalovskiy Rayon
- 9 Constraints, Fears, Frustrations
- 10 Knocking on Doors
- 11 Public Health and Private Pain
- 12 the Unnatural Steals the Natural
- 13 Resignation
- 14. Vulnerability and Chance
- 15 The KGB List of Victims
- 16 Moscow Redux
- 17 Names Go to Places: Map Building Begins
- 18 Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks
- 19 Manifestation
- 20 Mirage: The Animal Outbreak
- 21 Chkalovskiy: The Final Pieces
- 22 Do No Evil, See No Evil
- 23 The Summing Up
- 24 the Threat of Bioweapons
- 25 Return to Yekaterinburg
- 26 “The World is Global”
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