MOSCOW, Apr 8 (NNN-TASS) – U.S. biological research, which is conducted secretly, is fraught with the risk of virus leakages, the Russian Defence Ministry said, yesterday.
“The United States has never been explicit about how dedicated it is, to ensure research safety in the bio-labs it oversees,” Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said during a briefing.
“The lack of transparency of their activities creates a risk of the spread of dangerous pathogens,” Kirillov said, as the Russian Defence Ministry continues to analyse the military-biological activities of the United States and its allies around the world.
Moving the most dangerous research outside the U.S. territory is part of Washington’s bio-security strategy, and placing bio-objects in other countries does not consider the interests of local populations, and poses a serious threat to entire regions, he said.
Kirillov also said, the U.S. leadership continues to involve government agencies not directly related to public health in biomedical programmes, in a bid to divert public attention away from the primary beneficiary, the Pentagon.
