What the records say
- When
- 2 Apr 1979
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 56.78° N, 60.59° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sverdlovsk anthrax leak.
Summary
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock. It is a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972.
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak
1979 anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union
On 2 April 1979, an accidental release of spores of Bacillus anthracis is reported to have started an outbreak of the disease which resulted in the deaths of at least 68 people. Soviet authorities contemporaneously maintained that the illness was due to consumption of tainted meat in the area, with butchers' subcutaneous exposure being indicative of a tainted meat origin.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Эпидемия сибирской язвы в Свердловске”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “一座位于斯維爾德洛夫斯克的苏联生物武器实验室不慎泄漏炭疽细菌，66人丧生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page