Institute of Applied Biochemistry
(Redirected from Kirov bioweapons production facility)
The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is a research laboratory and bioweapons production facility located in Omutninsk, Kirov Oblast.[1] For a time in the 1980s, the facility was directed by Ken Alibek.[2]
Wild rodents like rats that live in the woods outside the factory are chronically infected with the "Schu-4 military strain" of tularemia due to a "small leak" in a basement pipe found in the twilight years of the USSR to be dripping a viral suspension into the ground.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Omutninsk". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ a b Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65. The New Yorker.
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