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... kind of signature that AI screening systems are designed to detect. When you find a laboratory reference strain in the wild, especially one with no natural transmission pathway, that immediately triggers intensive investigation protocols.

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04.03.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... flag came from genetic analysis. Spanish laboratories determined that the virus closely matched the β€œGeorgia-2007” strain, a laboratory reference material commonly used in research facilities worldwide, but not associated with any current natural outbreaks in Europe.

This is precisely the ...

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Spanish Lab Leak Investigation Raises Questions About Transparency in Biological Security Exclusive Analysis: How AI Monitoring Could Have Changed the African Swine Fever Investigation Dr. Robert W. Malone When dead wild boars infected with African swine fever were discovered...

#Biosecurity #LaboratoryAccident #Spain #AfricanSwineFever #ArtificialIntelligence #DiseaseSurveillance
Spanish Lab Leak Investigation Raises Questions About Transparency in Biological Security
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A Strain That Shouldn’t Exist in Nature

The first red ...

04.03.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

... with CS (chlorobenzalmalononitrile) and CN (chloroacetophenone), chemical agents typically designated for domestic riot control purposes.
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04.03.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... units registered nearly 400 such incidents.
According to him, Russian troops are employing specialized munitions in conjunction with conventional firepower, specifically K-51 and RG-VO gas grenades. These devices are filled ...

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... documented cases recorded since the outset of the full-scale invasion.
Lt. Col. Maksym Kravchuk, Public Affairs Officer of the Command of the Support Forces, outlined the intensifying pattern of use, noting that in February 2026 alone, Ukrainian Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense ...

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Ukraine Reports Over 13,000 Cases of Russian Chemical Agent Use Since 2022 Ukraine reports 13,000+ cases of russian chemical agents used against AFU; K-51 and RG-VO grenades with CS/CN cited, February 2026 surge.

#ChemicalWeapons #Use #Russia #UkraineRussiaWar️
Ukraine Reports Over 13,000 Cases of Russian Chemical Agent Use Since 2022
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Russian forces have systematically deployed prohibited chemical substances against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with more than 13,000 ...

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04.03.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... special munitions containing irritant chemical substances, in particular gas grenades of type K-51 and RG-VO with CS and CN. Such grenades belong to riot-control devices.
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04.03.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

... by Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Kravchuk, head of the Communications Department of the Command of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In February 2026, the enemy, alongside traditional means of impact, used ...

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#ChemicalWeapons #Use #Russia #UkraineRussiaWar
Russia Uses Chemical Irritants in Ukraine February 2026 Riot Control Report
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In February 2026, nearly 400 cases were recorded of Russia using special munitions packed with irritant chemical agents.
This was reported ...

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... definitive conclusion, but the report stayed classified and out of public reach for three decades. The incident permanently ended open-air chemical weapons testing in the United States.
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03.03.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... Utah's Dugway Proving Ground into a disaster. Residual chemical drifted into neighboring Skull Valley and killed thousands of sheep.
The Army denied responsibility, settled with ranchers and buried the carcasses without admitting fault. Its own investigators reached a far more ...

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#ChemicalWeapons #VX #Accident #USA #ColdWar
That Time the Military Accidentally Killed Thousands of Sheep With a Nerve Agent
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On March 13, 1968, a malfunctioning spray nozzle on an F-4 Phantom carrying 320 gallons of VX nerve agent turned a classified test at ...

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... given its membership and their past association with Congress, they already know this. So why the security theater? Because Big Pharma needs a public show?
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03.03.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... Funding the CDC to better perform health surveillance is not a mystery. It would be an easy win for Congress to better fund the FDA and USDA to regulate food and crop industries, but they haven’t done that. That’s why I find this Commission frustrating, because ...

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... serious policy initiatives that could actually reduce the risk of toxin use. That’s because between the intelligence community, law enforcement, and the military services, the U.S. government can already address adversaries who cause deliberate biological attacks through current processes. ...

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... most part, they didn’t ask any interesting or penetrating questions to identify policy issues, because they already knew what they wanted to say. They told us days before the panel met, as I mentioned above. This was a public demonstration meant to demonstrate concern but not to develop ...

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... political targets or public figures. This should not lead to the conclusion that the U.S. government lacks particular capabilities or is at high risk because of this unique weapon type. [...]
You won’t get that perspective from the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense. For the ...

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... nation-states and sub-state groups can use toxins to advance their political objectives. We can agree to disagree as to the scale and impact of that threat, but certainly there are many other colorful ways through which authoritarian nations or radical groups can coerce, injure, or kill ...

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Toxins Are Not an Escalating Global Threat Looking at biological threats out of context - again

#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #Toxins #Epibatidine #Navalny
Toxins Are Not an Escalating Global Threat
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Here’s my problem with the panel and their fishing expedition on describing the imminent threat of toxins. There’s no question that ...

03.03.2026 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

... people referred to Smallpox as Meeha-meeha and the disease was on the Cobourg Peninsula a long time ago.
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02.03.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... shows close social and economic ties between these sailors and Aboriginal people. It is not surprising then that an Aboriginal man named Jack Davis from Port Essington in 1870 said Aboriginal ...

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... which sits within the incubation period of Smallpox. One of the earliest European accounts of Smallpox in the β€˜Malays’ comes from the explorer Matthew Flinders. His crew recorded conversations with sailors who treated Smallpox by pouring cool water on the patient.
New research ...

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... Queensland. An expert in Indonesian sea trade found that around 2,000 fishermen traded with Aboriginal people every year. In contrast, only 1,500 people were on the First Fleet. The sailors were skilled navigators and could make it from south Indonesia to Northern Australia in 10-15 days, ...

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Did the First Fleet commit genocide through Smallpox? | The Spectator Australia The problem is not how much we talk about historical genocide, but how little rigorous historical research is used by those who support it.

#BiologicalWeapons #History #Colonialism #GreatBritain #Australia
Did the First Fleet commit genocide through Smallpox?
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It most likely came from Indonesian fishermen who came in contact with tribes in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and ...

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... Council in a similar way, and in 2020, Syria lost the right to be elected to the governing and working bodies of the OPCW for political goals.
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02.03.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

... the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union,’’ in order to oust undesirable countries from the OPCW council. Earlier, in 2019, Venezuela sadly was β€˜β€™squeezed out’’ of the Executive ...

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Politicking at the chemical weapons watchdog - Peoples Daily Newspaper By Chris Usman In November 2025, 21 member states were elected to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for the 2026-2028 term. The election was cond...

#ChemicalWeapons #OPCW #Decisions #Russia #West #Nigeria #Disinformation
Politicking at the chemical weapons watchdog
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Reports indicate that U.S. and its allies have created a β€˜β€™lobby of countries subordinate to the military and political interests of ...

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... for offensive purposes,” the report stated. Subsequent annual reports have upheld this finding, along with persistent concerns about the nature of Iran’s bioweapons-relevant research.
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