WHO warns of the danger of highly dangerous pathogens in the laboratories of Ukraine

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - The World Health Organization has warned of a potential danger in Ukraine, recommending the destruction of &quot;highly dangerous pathogens&quot; to avoid the risk of any potential leaks of germs during the Russian invasion and the ongoing war in part of the country.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The organization said it &quot;strongly recommended the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and other responsible agencies to destroy highly dangerous germs to prevent their spread.&quot;</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The organization indicated that it had previously worked with Ukrainian public health laboratories to develop security protocols aimed at preventing the &quot;accidental or intentional&quot; release of pathogens.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Public health laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere are testing pathogens and toxins to understand how they work, their effect on humans and animals, their transmission routes, and ways in which their harmful effects can be counteracted by medical treatments. According to Reuters, Ukrainian laboratories are supported by the United States, the European Union and the World Health Organization.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The World Health Organization did not say which pathogens could be used in biological warfare, which Russia has long claimed to be in Ukrainian laboratories that receive US support.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Allegations of the existence of laboratories in Ukraine to develop biological weapons</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reiterated Russia&#39;s longstanding claim that the United States operates biological warfare laboratories in Ukraine, and that Russian forces have discovered documents in Ukraine that provided evidence that the Ukrainian Ministry of Health ordered samples of plague and cholera germs to be destroyed. and anthrax and other pathogens before the start of the invasion on February 24, both the United States and Ukraine have denied the allegations, and a spokeswoman for the US mission to the United Nations (on March 10) said that Russia may claim this to justify a biological or chemical attack.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> On Thursday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov announced that the goal of US-funded biological research in Ukraine was to create a secret mechanism for spreading deadly pathogens.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the capture of numbered birds released from biological laboratories in Ukraine in the Russian regions of Ivanovo and Voronezh to spread the infection.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In the same context, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that it now knows the details of the UP-4 project, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa during the period up to 2020.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> According to the ministry, the goal of the project was to study the possibility of spreading high-risk infections through migratory birds, including the highly contagious H5N1 influenza, which has a fatality rate of up to 50%, as well as Newcastle disease.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> During this, at least two types of migratory birds were identified, the routes of which pass mainly through Russia, and information on their migration routes through Eastern European countries were summarized.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> For his part, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said (on March 10) that the World Health Organization, which works with Ukrainian laboratories, had previously stated that it was &quot;not aware of any activity by the Ukrainian government that is inconsistent with its obligations under international treaties, including chemical or biological weapons.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In general, we are not here to prove the allegations of one of the parties, but wars remain a global threat to the security of humanity, and laboratories that study pathogens (whether for the purpose of scientific research or the development of biological weapons) have become a deadly threat that may spread an epidemic that is difficult to control if It was handled unsafely.</p>