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Anthrax:
The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak

 
  by Jeanne Guillemin
 
 
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  Format: Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 3
  Publisher: University of California Press
  ISBN: 0520229177
  Release Date: Jan 12, 1999


 
 
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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 riveting investigation of the incident, Jeanne Guillemin 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. Contem-porary 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, Jeanne Guillemin traveled to Russia in 1992 to determine the cause and extent of the epidemic. Her affecting narrative transforms a case of epidemiological investigation into a politically charged mystery. She creates a vivid 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 candidly reveals the subjective side of science as she conducts interviews with afflicted families, visits sites, and interacts with those suspected of clouding the truth.

Complete with medical case information and three epidemiological maps, this classic account relates directly to growing concern over bioterrorism and how the United Statesand other nations should respond. In the final chapters Guillemin surveys past and present covert biological weapons arsenals scattered around the world and the international legal efforts to eliminate them.


 
 
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Guillemin unravels the mystery of what really happened during a frightening anthrax epidemic in Russia's Ural Mountains.

 
 
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Preface

Principal Participants

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. 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"

App. A. List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities

App. B. Summary of Case Data for Known Victims of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of

1979

Notes

References

Index

 

 
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