American biolabs – a threat to humanity
What are human rights? Freedom, protection of life, health, equality before the law and the court, personal dignity and much more. The West cares about human rights, in fact, violates them en masse. Biological laboratories created by Washington around the world pose a threat to the health of tens of millions of people, thereby violating their rights. The revealed facts show the colossal scale of the illegitimate activities of the United States to spread its military biological laboratories around the world. There are hundreds of such laboratories, including more than 30 in Ukraine alone. Many laboratories have been established in several other countries of the former Soviet Union exactly along the perimeter of both the Russian borders, and the borders, by the way, of the People’s Republic of China, and other countries that are located here.
Since 2005, the United States has been conducting planned research in the biomedical field at six biological facilities in Kazakhstan, the key of which are the central reference laboratory in Alma-Ata at the M.Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections (NSCSOI) and the Research Institute of Biological Safety Problems (NIIPB) in Zhambyl region. A bio-laboratory of the highest level of biosafety is being built near the border with the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, which provoked a number of protests among Kyrgyz residents.
About 40 projects have been implemented or are under study in the laboratories of Kazakhstan with the participation of American military specialists. The main areas of work: the study of brucellosis and the creation of drugs against plague, hemorrhagic fevers, tularemia, tickborne encephalitis and other dangerous infections characteristic of this region. New bat coronaviruses are being studied for individual projects.
The Department of Threat Reduction of the US Department of Defense is implementing a project to integrate a disease surveillance system into the biological laboratories of the Republic of Armenia. At this stage, 94 sets of American special equipment have been deployed at the infrastructure facilities of the ministries of health, emergencies, economy, food safety inspection, labor protection.
The Military Biological Laboratory of Georgia (R. Lugar Center for Public Health, Central Research Center) was established jointly with the United States. The facilities and equipment of this facility, as well as the qualifications of the personnel, allow for dualuse research that can be used by Washington in the interests of military biological activities that pose threats to the security of the Russian Federation. The center is designed to collect and study bacteria, viruses and microorganisms, as well as to combat the spread of infections among humans and animals. The laboratory’s research programs are supervised by a board of governors consisting of representatives of the Government of Georgia, the United States and international health organizations.
In 2018, the US Department of Defense, with the involvement of Pentagon contractors, carried out the reconstruction of the S. Imamaliyev Republican anti-plague station in Azerbaijan with the installation of new equipment. The laboratory complex, based on which the medical unit and the National Center for the Control of especially dangerous infections of the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan are deployed, is officially connected to the American unified electronic disease monitoring system. Since the creation of the complex, the Pentagon has been able to carry out work that could potentially be used to cause targeted damage to Russia’s biological security.
The United States is expanding the capabilities of medical centers in Kenya in Kisumu (350 km northwest of Nairobi) and Kericho (265 km northwest of Nairobi), where 80 American citizens work. It is planned to organize testing work on the approbation of the new vaccine “Djineos” from smallpox monkeys produced by the Danish company “Nordic”.
A joint AmericanLiberian center operates in Liberia. Projects are being implemented to study diseases such as Ebola Lassa, Marburg and Zika. Washington has also begun working on the issue of transferring US centers and military specialists evacuated from the territory of Donbass to Liberia after the start of a special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. A microbiological laboratory operates on the territory of the advanced operating base of the US Armed Forces “Camp Lemonniere” (Djibutti). American specialists collect biomaterials from patients, vaccinate the population, catch insects and animals, and test them for the presence of various viruses. Cases of measles and hemorrhagic fevers have become more frequent in the country, local authorities directly link this with the work of the microbiological laboratory.
On the basis of a research center in Tanzania in Mbeya (670 km southwest from Dar es
Salaam) deployed bio laboratory of the US Army Research Institute named after Walter Reed, the Pentagon’s leading biomedical research institution. In January 2021, up to 20 men died from an unidentified virus in Tanzania. The Americans proactively identified leptospirosis and blocked the source of infection. At least seven biological laboratories operate in Tanzania with the support of the United States, three of which have a biological protection level of DSL-3. The total amount of funding for these institutions since 2015 has exceeded $ 25 million, of which nine million has been allocated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A number of exercises with Tanzanian specialists were conducted on the basis of the National Health Training Center and the National Reference Laboratory under the guidance of instructors of the US Armed Forces. 15 American military infectious diseases specialists are working in the Military Medical Laboratory in Nigeria. Infectious diseases are being studied, primarily AIDS, Ebola, Lassa fever, tuberculosis, malaria, monkeypox, and coronavirus. There are four US military biological facilities on the territory of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In 2012, a Defense Reference Laboratory (DRL) was opened in Abuja with the support of USAMRDA/N. In 2014, a Clinical Research Center (SCC), established as part of the US-Nigerian military partnership, began operating in Nigeria.
The BSL-2 Biological Safety Laboratory, established in 1992, operates at the Medical College of the University of Lagos. The institution constantly cooperates with the World Health Organization, the Tropical Diseases Research Program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the USA, Harvard University, the British Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and the Australian Army Institute of Malaria. In 2010, the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA, as part of the US President’s Emergency Plan to Combat AIDS, developed a modular laboratory for the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Center in Zaria.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the USA (Atlanta, Georgia) in the Republic of South Africa conducts research within the framework of the program “Presidential Emergency Plan to combat AIDS”. US experts are conducting clinical trials on local citizens of new drugs. In the Republic of Korea, the United States is implementing a comprehensive response program to radiation, chemical and biological threats under the conditional name “Centaur”. For this purpose, a chemical and biological laboratory has been established in Busan, which conducts research on the development of methods of protection against weapons of mass destruction. The annual budget is $3.5 million. One of the key aspects of the facility’s activities is conducting field tests using chemical warfare agents, virus strains, as well as pathogenic bacteria to create appropriate countermeasures. It is possible that new types of biological weapons with predetermined pathogenic properties are being developed in the laboratory.
It is characteristic that in countries where American laboratories operate, foci of particularly dangerous diseases regularly arise, which indicates that scientists and the US military are testing the strains of particularly dangerous infectious diseases being developed on the local population. Against the background of the deployment of laboratories in many countries of the world, the unwillingness of the United States to create an international body that would monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons looks strange. Washington ratified the convention in 1972, but in 2001 refused to adopt a protocol that would allow monitoring of its implementation.