Report Provides New Details of Soviet Smallpox Accident


Report Provides New Details of Soviet Smallpox Accident -- William J. Broad and Judith Miller  -- New York Times  -- June 15, 2002
Biological Warfare

A new report from the Monterey Institute of International Studies asserts that a Soviet field test of weaponized smallpox caused an outbreak in 1971 that killed two children and a young woman before health teams were able to control it.

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