Anthrax: the investigation of a deadly outbreak
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1. Verfasser: Guillemin, Jeanne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©1999
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index
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
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."
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 321 pages, [24] pages of plates)
ISBN:0520222040
0520927109
0585385203
9780520222045
9780520927100
9780585385204

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