"Biological Chernobyl": When A Deadly Infectious Disease Broke Out From A Soviet Lab In 1979
In 1979 , a deadly pathogen really didleak out from a science laboratory , kill at least 66 multitude and many animals nearby . Sometimes known as the " biological Chernobyl " , the catastrophe was covered up by the Soviet authority , with the truth only emerging to the rest of the worldin the 1990s . agree to prescribed accounts by the Soviet Union , in 1979 there was an outbreak of intestinal , food - borne splenic fever in the city of Sverdlovsk ....