Forty-one cases of documented inhalational anthrax from the Sverdlovsk epidemic of 1979
traced to release of aerosols of Bacillus anthracis at a secret biologic-agent production
facility were evaluated by semiquantitative histopathologic analysis of tissue concentrations
of organisms, inflammation, hemorrhage, and other lesions in the mediastinum, mediastinal
lymph nodes, bronchi, lungs, heart, spleen, liver, intestines, kidneys, adrenal glands, and
central nervous system. These data were correlated with clinical, epidemiologic, and …