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Apr 2 1979 Sverdlovsk - USSR
The first reports emerged in October 1979 by way of a Russian-language newspaper in Frankfurt, West Germany that was close to the Soviet emigre community, which ran a brief report lacking any details about a major germ accident
Apr 2 1979 Sverdlovsk - USSR
The first reports emerged in October 1979 by way of a Russian-language newspaper in Frankfurt, West Germany that was close to the Soviet emigre community, which ran a brief report lacking any details about a major germ accident
leading to deaths estimated in the thousands taking place in Russia. New details emerged in this same paper in early 1980, with reports of an explosion in April 1979 at a secret military installation near Sverdlovsk that released a large amount of anthrax spores into the air,
again with a thousand people estimated dead from the disease. There were reports that the area had been placed under Soviet military control with decontamination efforts implemented. The story gained attention as British and West German newspapers ran stories on the catastrophe
