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Anthrax : the investigation of a deadly outbreak /

This is a powerful story of an anthrax outbreak 20 years ago, one that took the lives of over 150 Russians, and one that was covered up by the KGB and others in the government. Like a mystery novel, the book's drama takes the reader through the maze of cover-up and denial to find the real truth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guillemin, Jeanne, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthrax; accursed fire and biological weapon
  • Moscow; fragments of evidence
  • Moscow; conflicting visions
  • In the Urals; the quest begins
  • Autopsy visions
  • The community of the dead; Vostochniy Cemetery
  • Abramova's treasure
  • To Chkalovskiy Rayon
  • Constraints, fears, frustrations
  • Knocking on doors
  • Public health and private pain
  • The unnatural steals the natural.
  • Resignation
  • Vulnerability and chance
  • The KGB list of victims
  • Moscow redux
  • Names go to places; map building begins
  • Biological weapons and political outbreaks
  • Manifestation
  • Mirage; the animal outbreak
  • Chkalovskiy; the final pieces
  • Do no evil, see no evil
  • The summing up
  • The threat of bioweapons
  • Return to Yekaterinburg
  • "The world is global."