The intoxication of Russian tourists in Georgia might be linked to Lugar Center
The intestinal infection, which hit Russian tourists in Georgia last summer, could have been developed in a laboratory. Shortly after this case, the Lugar Center, financed by the US, has been thrown into the center of a scandal. There are documents confirming that the laboratory conducted dangerous experiments including, possibly, on humans.
www.1tv.ru/news/2018-12-25/357845-rospotrebnadzor_rossiyskie_turisty_v_gruzii_mogli_zabolet_ot_infektsii_vyvedennoy_iskusstvennym_putem, ria.ru/20181228/1548829358.html, tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201812280636-pjxw.htm
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No evidence given about any possible link between the Lugar laboratory and the intoxication of Russian tourists.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about the US creating biological weapons in the Lugar laboratory in Georgia.
Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research is a facility of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), which became operational in August 2013. The Lugar center is top-tiered institution in NCDC’s laboratory network and serves as a reference laboratory of the Georgia’s public health system. www.ncdc.ge/en-US/LaboratoryNetworksAndBS
For background and earlier disinformation about "biological weapons targeting only Russians" click here.
Further debunking by The insider.