Time to Worry about Anthrax Again.

The article offers recent insights into the death of dozens of people in the Central Asian city of Sverdlovsk in 1979 to show just how deadly bioweapons can be. Topics covered include how the anthrax outbreak in a secret Soviet bioweapons facility as the reason behind the outbreak, the suitability of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, for arming unconventional weapons, and concerns that the Russian government may be relaunching its bioweapons program.