Good point. That was accidental, of course, but you are correct.
I'm glad you mentioned this, because it led me to dig a little into the background. The Soviets always maintained that the 1979 incident, which killed at least 68 people, was caused by tainted meat. This became a bone of contention with the Reagan administration. The controversy remained unresolved during the 1980s, the US intelligence community favoring the biowar accident theory, and much of the (left-wing) scientific community backing the Soviets' natural outbreak explanation. Barbara Rosenberg's SIPRI/Pugwash peacenik globalist buddy, Harvard biologist Matthew Meselson, led the pack in carrying the Soviet's water. Later, when it became irrefutable that the Reagan administration had called the incident correctly, a cornered Meselson admitted that, yes, it was a biowar accident, but it might have only have involved a few grammes of weaponized material -- such as the Soviets were permitted for defensive research under treaty obligations. This was, of course, pure bunk: the release involved several pounds of weaponized anthrax. The whole story only came out after the collapse of the Communist regime and the ascendancy of Yeltsin. (Source: Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979)
Those of us who were politically aware during the nineteen eighties know exactly what motivates people like Barbara "Nuthatch" Rosenberg. I had her number right from the start. Mind you, I think she has been used by the current administration, which has tacitly encouraged the media to dwell on various far-fetched "natural" or "domestic" theories since the first case in Florida. The leveraging of useful idiots on the left to further policy objectives has become a lietmotif of this administration -- witness the way that the Dems' "blame Dubya" hysteria has been used to subvert PC multuculturalist objections to the war on terrorism. Of course, if it works, why not use it? As a bystander, I find it fascinating to watch.
The administration also retains the option, whenever it would find it useful, of revealing the truth, which would simultaneously reveal the useful idiots for what they are.