Template:Are You Sure/April 2

• ... that the accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977, and that (1) the ensuing outbreak of the disease resulted in approximately 100 deaths, although the exact number of victims remains unknown; (2) he cause of the outbreak was denied for years by Soviet authorities, who blamed the deaths on consumption of tainted meat from the area; and (3) all medical records of the victims were removed to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?