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1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union

Dr. Matthew Meselson, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, discusses the 1979 Sverdlovsk outbreak of anthrax in the Soviet Union, later determined to be the result of an accidental leak of anthrax spores from a military bioweapons facility. (Source: Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties. Bacterial threat: anthrax. Training video recorded during the live satellite broadcast of the Medical Response to Biological Warfare and Terrorism, September 1998. U.S. Department of Defense 711271. TVT 8-3887 1999. Released into the public domain by the U.S. Department of Defense.)

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