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Mosnews: (FYI)Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link to Hepatitis O


There are also some reports in the Russian media, citing doctors from
the Tver region who allege that this was a terrorist act. So far
nothing who was behind it. M.L.


Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link to Hepatitis Outbreak

Created: 09.06.2005


MosNews

An investigation is checking whether the mass outbreak of hepatitis A
in the Tver region near Moscow could be linked to the biological
weapons sector. At the moment 363 people are in hospital, NewsRu.Com
reported Thursday. Some newspapers have linked the outbreak to the
recent murder of Russia's leading specialist in bio weapons.

The outbreak began at the end of May in the Tver region and has now
reached the neighboring region of Smolensk, agencies report. It was
initially blamed on the local drinks industry, whose products revealed
some colon bacillus.

The investigation is still considering several versions, among them
biological weapons.

Some sources link Wednesday's murder of Anti-Microbe Therapy Institute
director Leonid Strachunsky, who specialized in creating microbes
resistant to biological weapons, to the hepatitis outbreak, NewsRu.Com
added.

Strachunsky was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where he came
from Smolensk en route to the United States. He had been hit on the
head with a champagne bottle, and some of his possessions were missing.

In spite of the seeming simplicity of the crime, the investigators are
looking for a connection between the murder of the leading bio weapons
researcher and the hepatitis outbreak in Tver, the Moskovsky
Komsomolets paper reports.




"It looks like thier commemerating themselves after D-Day." -.02 after scanning a book of french(spit) stamps

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