All of the sites where stockpiles of Soviet-era anthrax were buried on the Vozrozhdeniya peninsula in the Aral Sea have been decontaminated, Bakhyt Atshabar, director of the Kazakh Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Infections, said yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 20).

The 10 anthrax burial sites were decontaminated during the summer through a project organized by the Untied States and conducted with the assistance of Uzbekistan, Atshabar said (see GSN, May 15).  A team of Kazakh specialists is scheduled to travel to Vozrozhdeniya in May of next year to collect air, soil and water samples to evaluate the decontamination effort, he added (Khabar Television/BBC Monitoring, Nov. 19).

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