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By Jeanne Guillemin. 321 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. $27.50. ISBN 0-520-22204-0.

Anthrax, an ancient disease, was well known to the Greeks and Romans and was widespread in Europe for thousands of years. In the first chapter of this book, Guillemin cites Virgil, who describes in the Georgics how the disease spreads from animals to humans. This was the only mode of transmission until the dramatic airborne epidemic and epizootic of anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, a Russian city in the foothills of the Ural Mountains.

The amazing explanation Russian public health leaders gave for this episode will appall the reader, as it did those of us who heard their story when . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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