independent investigation 12.11.2001 (2001)

"Anthrax".

The program is devoted to the problem of the existence of biological weapons.

During the investigation, it is planned to consider the current situation in America.

The presenter in the studio says that so far the number of deaths in America from anthrax is incomparable with the number of deaths during the terrorist attacks of September 11, but according to psychologists, the syndrome of fear of anthrax has penetrated almost every American family better than any virus.

The presenter suggests conducting another independent investigation and trying to answer the following questions: what to do to avoid responsibility for a possible psychosis that may occur during the expectation of an epidemic of this disease, what doctors can do, what psychologists can do, whether it is necessary to prepare yourself for this terrible condition at all.

A video about the discovery of a suspicious white powder at the fair in Engels.

Video: "Trading house" in the city of Engels, people and policemen on the street, shopping malls at the fair, a sign "Women's trousers", a car "Gazelle".

Director of the emergency rescue service "Engels-Spas" Sergey Bublik says about the product, sprinkled with suspicious white powder.

The chief state sanitary doctor for Engels Vyacheslav Smetankin about the discovered white powder.

Laboratory assistants in the office conduct an experiment on white mice.

Zoya Fedorova, Deputy chief physician of the Gossanepidnadzor Center, speaks on the phone about a suspicious white powder.

The newspaper page with the article "Powder in an envelope".

Fedorova Z. talks about a man who bought jeans with white powder.

The saleswoman Svetlana, who discovered the white powder at the fair.

In the studio, an employee of the search and rescue service of Engels, Alexander Golubyatnikov, talks about the discovery of white powder at the fair.

Syrtsov Igor Arkadievich on the actions of international postal security services and the action of constant monitoring of correspondence.

Vedeneev Yuri about the calls of citizens to the crisis management center.

Burgasov Pyotr Nikolaevich on the situation with anthrax in the United States, reports that the powders have nothing to do with military substances, states that this is fiction for the purpose of psychological pressure on the population.

Employees of the transfer are looking through postal envelopes.

Vedeneev Yu . about the vigilance of citizens reporting white powder.

Mikhail Ignatievich Grishankov, on the creation of myths that do not exist, gives an example of the situation with the cholera epidemic in Kazan, about the role of the media in distorting facts and the absence of a law on biological terrorism.

Leonid Kirillov says that veterinary practice has all the necessary tools for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of anthrax.

Vladimir Gavrilov answers the question whether terrorists can seize biological laboratories.

Burgasov says that the terrorists will not look for the causative agent of anthrax in laboratories in the presence of animal burial grounds throughout the country.

Bakulov Igor Alekseevich about the characteristics of bacteria and the situation in the USA.

Lev Fedorov reports that there are two types of anthrax - natural and combat, developed for the military.

Fedorov L.A. says that natural anthrax is common in the United States, but we should be afraid of combat.

Petrov Stanislav Veniaminovich claims that biological weapons are present in the United States.

Lev Moiseevich Grinberg on natural and military strains of anthrax.

Petrov claims that there are no biological weapons in Russia and there never have been.

Fedorov about the leak, the result of an accidental release of a combat strain in Sverdlovsk in 1979.

Grishankov says that it is impossible to destroy all anthrax bacteria, it is necessary to have samples to create vaccines.

In the studio, people who have been vaccinated against anthrax raise their hands.

Kirillov L. says that he was vaccinated against anthrax because he works with animals.

The presenter asks the specialists whether vaccination is a panacea.

Kirillov talks about the effect of vaccination for one year.

Syrtsov talks about the statistics of deaths in the United States from anthrax and believes that there is a fact of information terrorism and panic is being whipped up.

The presenter asks the audience's opinion whether it is necessary to be vaccinated against anthrax; most viewers are against it.

Viewers explain why they are against vaccination against ulcers.

Greenberg believes that if vaccinations are not done in the United States, then there is no great danger.

Burgasov suggests that vaccination can provoke panic among the population, and reports that vaccinations are necessary only for agricultural workers.

Mikhailov, Alexander Georgievich, about the use of postal items by terrorists to spread ulcer strains and the search for benefits from the situation by Western special services.

Grishankov on the allocation of funds from the budget in 2002 to protect the security of institutions where strains are stored.

The plot is about the tragedy in Sverdlovsk in the spring of 1979, when the anthrax virus leaked, as a result of which more than 70 people died.

Video: Sverdlovsk City Council tower with clock, new buildings, graves in the cemetery with the same date, laboratory assistants in the office conduct an experiment, the territory of the military camp, the infrastructure of the enterprise, a map of the Chkalovsky district with affected areas, City clinical Hospital No. 40, a laboratory assistant in a bathrobe and mask puts a pallet in a horizontal autoclave, military and medical personnel in the laboratory, slides to the microscope with spots, people in chemical protection suits, mold in a Petri dish under the microscope, a man in chemical protection walking down the corridor, a sign "Contagious block", hands with a Petri dish and a glass stick, a laboratory assistant in a mask walks down the corridor, the trunk of a birch tree.

Lev Grinberg talks about Abramova Faina Afanasyevna, who was the first to diagnose a patient with anthrax in Sverdlovsk, recalls the situation in the city during the epidemic, about informing the population.

Mikhailov on the classification of information in emergency situations.

Fedorov about the form of the ulcer that spread in Sverdlovsk, the disappearance of all information on that epidemic and the absence of a report on this event.

Vlasova Lada on the work of the interdepartmental monitoring system and laboratory control of situations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.