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		<title>A clogged air filter was not an unusual occurrence, but it had to be replaced immediately</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak of 1979: The story went public a few months later—in a way. In November 1979, a Russian magazine published by anti-Soviet émigrés in what was then West Germany reported that an explosion in a military facility in the southwest section of Sverdlovsk had released a cloud [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A high-fat Western diet alters bile acid metabolism by promoting certain gut bacteria that convert primary bile acids into DCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study published in the journal Gut points to deoxycholic acid (DCA), a substance produced when particular gut bacteria chemically transform bile acids made by the liver, as promoting tumor growth: An international research team led by German institutions combined experiments in genetically modified pigs, mice, and lab-grown human colon tissue with an analysis [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It was milky brown, the highest possible concentration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) a time he was called into the lab to handle a problem: I stripped my clothes off and stuffed them into one of the lockers lining the walls. Then I walked into a second room, where a young nurse sat behind a desk. I had a nodding acquaintance with her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If you could lift the roof, it would resemble a Russian matryoshka doll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek describes (in Biohazard) the spotless gray three-story structure at Omutninsk that had been designated as the pilot plant for tularemia: Building 107 was structured according to the box-within-a-box principle, to keep the deadliest organisms out of the surrounding countryside. If you could lift the roof, it would resemble a Russian matryoshka doll. […] [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet biology was paralyzed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the Cold War, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), when the USSR appeared to be leading the world in space and nuclear weapons technology, Soviet biology was paralyzed: We had gone from being one of the world’s powerhouses of immunological and epidemiological research to a backwater of demoralized and discredited scientists. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Many of the ministry’s facilities were installed in the centers of towns and cities, to keep their military connection camouflaged</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the Soviets’ most successful biological warfare programs, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), was created by the Ministry of Agriculture: A special division was established to research and manufacture anti-livestock and anti-crop weapons. The division was given the uninspired title of Main Directorate for Scientific and Production Enterprises. The biowarfare program was code-named “Ecology.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In 1946, a year after the war ended, a new army biological research complex was established at Sverdlovsk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Soviet Union’s approach to biological warfare took a new turn in September 1945, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), when Soviet troops in Manchuria overran a Japanese military facility known as Water Purification Unit 731: The unit, commanded by Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, experimented with anthrax, dysentery, cholera, and plague on U.S., British, and Commonwealth [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The casualties inflicted by a brutal epidemic of typhus from 1918 to 1921 made a deep impression on the commanders of the Red Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year after taking power in 1917, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), the Bolshevik government plunged into a savage conflict with anti-Communist forces: Red and White armies clashed from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula, and by the time hostilities ended in 1921, as many as ten million people had lost their lives. The majority of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The lesson of Stalingrad would not be forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biological warfare was the furthest thing from his mind, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), when he entered the military faculty of the Tomsk Medical Institute in 1973 to begin graduate studies as a cadet intern: I was planning to become a military psychiatrist, until a professor gave me an assignment that changed my relationship to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Francisella tularensis is lethal in 30 percent of untreated cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t recall ever hearing the name tularemia growing up, but I’m pretty sure I was vaguely aware of something called rabbit fever — if only because I’d seen the warning against rabbititis in Hare Tonic: “And then suddenly everything’d go black!” Tularemia is a debilitating illness, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), rife among wild [&#8230;]]]></description>
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