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To: Alamo-Girl; Clive; OKCSubmariner
Note also that the Rhodesian [now Zimbabwe] Anthrax outbreak which resulted in some 10K fatalities from 1978-80, as described in Dr. Meryl Nass's report, occurred in the same approximate timeframe as that of the April 1979 Soviet *laboratory accident* at Sverdlovsk [now Ekaterinburg] which reportedly affected 94 people and killed at least 64 of them. The limited scope of the Soviet outbreak in which the first victim died after four days with the last one dying six weeks later also appears more similar to the effects of the US *anthrax mail bombs*, though that may in part be explained by the probability that the intended target in Rhodesia was that country's cattle farmers, with the fatalities a result of ingestion of the meat from fatally diseased cattle.
61 posted on 11/17/2001 8:47:41 AM PST by archy
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To: archy
It's also possible that the Soviets had developed a vaccine specific to their weapons-grade strain or had determined an antibiotic regime efficient in limiting the scope of their problem

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62 posted on 11/17/2001 8:50:24 AM PST by archy
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Thank you so much for the information!!!
66 posted on 11/17/2001 10:32:54 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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