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...Meselson's team traveled to Ekaterinburg, a city 900 miles east of Moscow. There, they met with the two Russian pathologists who performed autopsies on the affected people...
...pretty confident that it was airborne [as opposed to being from meat]," Meselson said in a phone interview Saturday. "The most plausible source is the military base, and they do say they were working with [the anthrax bacteria] for a vaccine...
...Meselson, who first became involved with the epidemic when the CIA contacted him in 1980, tried to visit the Soviet Union for several years but was not granted permission until 1986, when he was invited to speak with four doctors who treated patients in the epidemic...
...with an invitation from the director of the local university last year to study the epidemic, Meselson's team of experts began their own independent research...
...team interviewed families of 50 of the victims, but the chief veterinarian, local public health official, and the commander of the military base were "unable" to speak with the team, Meselson said. Government rules also hampered their study of the deaths of the animals...