Disinfo: Russian and international experts are concerned by uncontrolled expansion of the US biolabs

Summary

Russian and international experts are following with concern the uncontrolled expansion of the biological infrastructure of the US military department throughout the Russian border, on the territories of the states bordering Russia. There are grounds to believe that biological weapons are being developed there. There are deadly pathogens in this kind of US and NATO laboratories that may escape and cause a massive infection of the population of Russia and bordering countries. The US is preparing individual biologic study plans for many states, mostly of a military character, and impose its compliance through different joint programmes presented as peaceful. China also complained that the US has never responded to Chinese requests to give an explanation on the activities of these laboratories.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about US biolaboratories around the world, part of a years-long disinformation campaign led by the Kremlin. The article does not present any evidence supporting the claim, thus making these accusations unfounded.

For example, Russia claims that the Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research in Georgia, a public health facility named after US Senator Richard Lugar and a frequent pro-Kremlin disinformation target, is one such lab, but has never presented evidence to support its allegations. International experts visited the facility in 2018 to examine the premises, interview employees and review documents but found nothing suspicious.

See other examples in our database, such as claims that US-controlled biolabs develop biological weapons under the guise of studying dangerous infections, that coronavirus is linked to an American biolaboratory, that the US is preparing for bacteriological warfare with Russia, or that a US biolab is conducting deadly experiments on Georgian population.

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  • Reported in: Issue 258
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 06/09/2021
  • Article language(s) Spanish
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US, Russia, China
  • Keywords: Biological weapons, laboratory
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