- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Principal Participants
-
1 Anthrax -
2 Moscow -
3 Moscow -
4 In the Urals -
5 Autopsy Visions -
6 The Community Of the Dead -
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 -
18 Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks -
19 Manifestation -
20 Mirage -
21 Chkalovskiy -
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” -
Appendix A List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities -
Appendix B Summary of Case Data for Known Victims, Including Survivors, of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979 - References
- Index
Moscow
Moscow
Fragments of Evidence
- Chapter:
- (p.11) 2 Moscow
- Source:
- Anthrax
- Author(s):
Jeanne Guillemin
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter identifies the evidence that helped determine the cause of the anthrax epidemic in Sverdlovsk. It first discusses the “point epidemic” or the large but temporary excess in disease frequency, which usually lasts days or months, and next tries to determine, through interviews, what each anthrax victim was doing in 1979, in the days prior to falling ill. The chapter also reveals that it is the toxins produced by the bacteria (and not the bacteria itself) which are lethal.
Keywords: evidence, point epidemic, disease frequency, anthrax victim, toxins
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Principal Participants
-
1 Anthrax -
2 Moscow -
3 Moscow -
4 In the Urals -
5 Autopsy Visions -
6 The Community Of the Dead -
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 -
18 Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks -
19 Manifestation -
20 Mirage -
21 Chkalovskiy -
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” -
Appendix A List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities -
Appendix B Summary of Case Data for Known Victims, Including Survivors, of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979 - References
- Index
