US Violates Biological Research Safety Rules, Anthrax Spores Sent To 10 States - Moscow

US Violates Biological Research Safety Rules, Anthrax Spores Sent to 10 States - Moscow

The United States has been violating safety rules during biological weapons research, viable anthrax spores have been sent to 10 countries, Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian Armed Forces' Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th October, 2018) The United States has been violating safety rules during biological weapons research, viable anthrax spores have been sent to 10 countries, Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian Armed Forces' Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, said Thursday.

"It speaks volumes that biological research in the United States is carried out with multiple breaches of safety rules and rules for the handling of pathogenic microorganisms," Kirillov said.

According to the Russian military, viable anthrax spores were being sent out from Dugway Proving Ground in Utah in 2015-2015.

"Pathogenic biological materials were sent to 194 addressees in 10 countries," Kirillov said.

According to Kirillov, open sources showed that a routine check at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Maryland showed previously uncounted vials with smallpox virus.

Kirillov stressed that, given the newly-discovered information, Russia could not be certain that "the United States did not send the aforementioned formulas to the Lugar Center [in Georgia] or some other biological laboratories set up by Pentagon in the countries that border Russia."

"In the region where Lugar Center is located the situation with infections transmitted by insects is growing particularly bad," Kirrillov said.

The atypical enlargement of the area where such insects live makes one think about the warnings of former Georgian State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze, who said the United States might be developing ways to deliver and use biological weapons, the Russian commander said.

Kirillov said that Giorgadze had cited a patent for a drone that could spread such insects, which "does not correspond to Washington's international commitments on the prohibition of biological and toxic weapons."