Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link to Hepatitis Outbreak. Leading biowepaons specialist murdered

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Russian Investigators Probe Biological Weapons Link to Hepatitis Outbreak

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Created: 09.06.2005 12:28 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:11 MSK, 5 hours 52

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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.

 

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