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Sverdlovsk Accidental Release  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • coordinate with DISASTERS if pertinent

Scope note

  • ANTHRAX outbreak that occurred in 1979 and was associated with a research facility in Sverdlovsk, in the Ural mountain region of central RUSSIA. Most victims worked or lived in a narrow zone extending from the facility. The zone of anthrax-caused livestock mortality paralleled the northerly wind that prevailed shortly before the outbreak. It was concluded that an escape of ANTHRAX caused outbreak.

History note

  • 2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055905

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