In Brief... Anthrax "Time Bomb" Ticking in Aral Sea, Researchers Say

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article by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, David Palmer, John Ross Schroeder, Peter Eddington

In the 1960s, Vozrozhdeniye was merely a tiny island in the vast Aral Sea.

CNN-Today, with the sea reduced to half its former size, and a much larger Vozrozhdeniye closing in on the shore, some U.S. researchers believe the island is a toxic time bomb set to infect central Asia with some of the deadliest germs on earth.

According to the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, Vozrozhdeniye was a secret biological weapons test site. Soviet, and later Russian, scientists routinely released deadly agents-including plague, small pox, tularemia and anthrax-into the air over the island for much of the last 50 years, the Institute claims.

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