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Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: 2 April 1979 Around 105 victims. On 2 April 1979, an outbreak of anthrax occurred in Sverdlovsk, USSR. It is believed that anthrax spores were accidentally released from a secret military facility. An official report stated that 64 people died during April and June.
The first recorded use of the word "anthrax" in English is in a 1398 translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's work De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things, 1240). [18] Anthrax was historically known by a wide variety of names, indicating its symptoms, location, and groups considered most vulnerable to infection.
A number of writers have accused the Rhodesian Government of intentionally distributing B. anthracis in western Rhodesia, causing an anthrax outbreak in the country from 1978 to 1984 with 10,738 human cases and 200 fatalities. [11]
The book Gödel, Escher, Bach contains a lengthy description of the encoding/decoding procedures, including an illustration of hiding a message within a message by emboldening certain characters. [129] According to the FBI Summary Report, "[w]hen they lifted out just the bolded letters, investigators got TTT AAT TAT – an apparent hidden message".
The Demon in the Freezer is a 2002 nonfiction book on the biological weapon agents smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive measures against them. It was written by journalist Richard Preston , also author of the best-selling book The Hot Zone (1994), about ebolavirus outbreaks in Africa and Reston, Virginia and ...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said that, so far, the moose is the only wild animal with a documented case of anthrax in this outbreak. The last confirmed case in the wild was in Sublette ...
The book is a autobiography of Alibek's life as a bioweapons developer in the former Soviet Union. It was first published by Hutchinson in the United Kingdom in 1999, and later then rereleased by Arrow Books in 2000. The book also details the worst anthrax outbreak in history, the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak, which led to 68 confirmed deaths.
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.