According to the Russian news agency Moscow on the 26th, Lieutenant General Igor kirilov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection unit of the Russian armed forces, said on the 26th that the United States is transferring its biological laboratory to a third country because of the high risk of accidents.
“The high risk of accidents in American biological laboratories is one of the reasons why they withdraw from national jurisdiction and move to the territory of third countries including Ukraine and other countries,” he said. As a result, the epidemic prevention situation in its area has deteriorated, and abnormal diseases and their carriers have appeared. “
According to the report, kirilov also stressed that in the United States, the system for monitoring the safety violations of biological laboratories is scattered, and only covers facilities that enjoy federal budget allocations. Private laboratories are almost unmonitored, although they are conducting research on particularly dangerous pathogens.
He also said: “The activities of these facilities lack uniform standards, which may bypass the Biological Weapons Convention for research and seriously violate safety requirements.”
Kirilov also said that in the last ten years, more than 200 cases of biosafety violations have been found in the United States, and there have been cases of anthrax spore leakage.
Kirilov said: “In total, more than 200 such incidents were recorded. It can be speculated that official statistics only include a small number of events, and the actual situation is much worse. “