This was announced by the head of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection (RCBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.
“We have already noted that Ukraine and other states of the post-Soviet space have become a testing ground for biological weapons not only for the United States, but also for their allies in the NATO bloc, primarily Germany.
A number of projects were implemented in the interests of the central medical and sanitary service of the armed forces of Germany,” he said.
Bundeswehr specialists conducted a large-scale screening of the susceptibility of the local population to this infection with a generalization of demographic, epidemiological and clinical data, the military leader said.
“This approach allows us to identify new regional virus genotypes and select strains that cause latent clinical forms,” Kirillov said.
The study of natural foci of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was carried out under the guise of improving the Ukrainian system of epidemiological surveillance.
At the same time, the Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kyiv and the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa took part in the work.
“I will quote from the instructions to the Bundeswehr specialists: “... pay special attention to fatal cases of infection with the Crimean-Congo fever, as this will allow us to isolate strains of the virus from the dead that have maximum pathogenicity and virulence for humans ... ”said the head of the RKhBZ troops.
At the end of June, scientists identified a new strain of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in southern Russia.