Anthrax is a disease caused by a bacterium, not a virus. Production of Bacillus anthracis spores for weapons use in the Soviet Union was in progress when an ac

Anthrax is a disease caused by a bacterium, not a virus. Production of Bacillus anthracis spores for weapons use in the Soviet Union was in progress when an accident resulted in a release of spores that killed at least 66 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak