An American biological laboratory with dangerous strains could have been looted in Kazakhstan
During the unrest in the capital of Kazakhstan, the Central Reference Laboratory, where American military doctors work and especially dangerous strains of infectious diseases are stored, could have been damaged.
Nikita Mednkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, which monitored this topic, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He said that information had been received about an intrusion into the territory of this laboratory during the riots on the night of January 5-6.
“But it was in this area that the most serious fighting took place. And there was a concentration of armed gangs. And some media reported, based on information from eyewitnesses, that they saw people in chemical protective suits. And that, perhaps, something could have gone missing from the biological laboratory. No one has confirmed this information one hundred percent. But there is such a danger. During the period of clashes, everything possible was looted. The security forces fled the city before the fighting began. The Prosecutor General’s Office and the complex of the National Security Committee were left without security,” Mednkovich said.
In his opinion, in the chaos of those days, penetration cannot be ruled out, and also explained what its danger was.
“There are strains there that are dangerous to humans. If they leak, it will be a disaster worse than the one that happened in Almaty during the fighting. There is a possible risk of mass infection,” the expert warns.
He clarified that the laboratory was guarded by Kazakh security forces.
“American specialists worked there on a rotational basis. These are American medical officers. Well, they have some kind of shooting training. But they are not young and it is not a fact that they often held weapons in their hands. Even if they remained on the territory of the complex on the night of the pogroms, I don’t know how effective they could have resisted,” concluded Mendkovich.
As PolitNavigator reported, in Kazakhstan opened a storage facility for dangerous pathogens.
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