Witness History
Witness History
BBC World Service
Anthrax Leak in the Soviet Union
9 minutes Posted Mar 29, 2017 at 12:58 am.
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In 1979, an outbreak of anthrax poisoning caused dozens of deaths in the Soviet Union. Geneticist and molecular biologist Professor Matthew Meselson and his team accessed the area years later to determine what had happened.

He told Rachael Gillman about his experience.

Photo: Anthrax Vial

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