Anthrax

by Guillemin, Jeanne

• ISBN13: 9780520229174
• ISBN10: 0520229177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This is a powerful story of an anthrax outbreak twenty 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Principal Participants	xv
Anthrax: Accursed Fire and Biological Weapon	1	(10)
Moscow: Fragments of Evidence	11	(12)
Moscow: Conflicting Visions	23	(13)
In the Urals: The Quest Begins	36	(14)
Autopsy Visions	50	(10)
The Community of the Dead: Vostochniy Cemetery	60	(10)
Abramova's Treasure	70	(11)
To Chkalovskiy Rayon	81	(11)
Constraints, Fears, Frustrations	92	(9)
Knocking on Doors	101	(9)
Public Health and Private Pain	110	(11)
The Unnatural Steals the Natural	121	(10)
Resignation	131	(9)
Vulnerability and Chance	140	(9)
The KGB List of Victims	149	(8)
Moscow Redux	157	(10)
Names Go to Places: Map Building Begins	167	(12)
Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks	179	(9)
Manifestation	188	(10)
Mirage: The Animal Outbreak	198	(9)
Chkalovskiy: The Final Pieces	207	(12)
Do No Evil, See No Evil	219	(10)
The Summing Up	229	(11)
The Threat of Bioweapons	240	(11)
Return to Yekaterinburg	251	(12)
``The World Is Global''	263	(10)
Appendix A. List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities	273	(5)
Appendix B. Summary of a Case Data for Known Victims of the Sverdlocsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979	278	(3)
Notes	281	(14)
References	295	(18)
Index	313