Anthrax
Subtitle: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 14, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780520222045
Subjects: History; Infectious & contagious diseases; Public health & preventive medicine; Social research & statistics; Military Science; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Chemical And Biological Warfare; Medical; History - General History; Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare; Military; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Epidemiology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Russia (Federation); Anthrax; Biological weapons; Ekaterinburg; Ekaterinburg (Russia)
First sentence: Tuesday, June 2, 1992. After a long transatlantic flight from New York, our research team arrives in the new post-Soviet Russia, a nation that six months before did not exist.
Description: "In April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official documents reported 64 human deaths resulting from the ingestion of tainted meat sold on the black market, but rumor told a different story and lack of documentation left unresolved questions. In her investigation of the incident, Jeanne Guillemin unravels the mystery of what really happened during that tragic event in Sverdlovsk.".

"As the team's medical anthropologist, she investigated the where-abouts of the victims and tracked the disease's progression. Because most hospital records had been lost or confiscated by the KGB, Guillemin began the arduous task of locating those who perished by gathering names at cemetery grave sites. Through persistent effort she found many of the victims' families and gently elicited their often emotional accounts of the outbreak."--BOOK JACKET.