DISINFO: US tests biological weapons on Ukrainians to further attack Russia
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: tsargrad.tv (archived)*
  • Date of publication: May 27, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 200
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Ukraine, Russia
Tags:
West Biological weapons War preparation Conspiracy theory

DISINFO: US tests biological weapons on Ukrainians to further attack Russia

SUMMARY

The USA is testing biological weapons on Ukrainians to further attack Russia. Laboratories created in Ukraine are participants in the US Defence project. The fact that they are developing secret biological weapons is confirmed by outbreaks of strange diseases in Ukraine, for example, outbreaks of hemorrhagic pneumonia, cholera, Swine Flu A (H1N1) pdm09, measles.

RESPONSE

This is another conspiracy theory about Western belligerence towards Russia not confirmed by facts. Viral pneumonia and other infectious diseases are not the result of the joint research work of the USA and Ukraine. Read a similar case that Coronavirus was created by Americans in Ukrainian laboratories. Viral pneumonia and the aggressive H1N1 influenza strain that triggered a worldwide epidemic in 2009 affected not only Ukrainians: once every few years, worldwide outbreaks of infectious diseases are recorded, as viruses can mutate. Cholera is a severe intestinal infection that usually occurs in contaminated waters, which is what triggered several cases of cholera outbreaks in Ukraine. Outbreaks of cholera are constantly recorded in different parts of the world and have nothing to do with the activities of “biological laboratories”, as well as outbreaks of measles or hepatitis, which can be prevented by standard immunisation. At the end of 2019, Ukraine entered the top five countries with the highest incidence of measles. Specialists from the World Health Organisation concluded that measles quickly spread to countries like Ukraine due to the systematic omission of vaccination of local children.

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