Posted on 07/30/2016 9:14:33 AM PDT by lafroste
The Russian military has reportedly sent biological warfare teams to the Russian arctic in northern Siberia after at least 40 people and 1,200 reindeer died as the result of a violent and rapid spread of what is believed to be Bacillus Anthracis, more commonly known as Anthrax.
Russian officials said the infection may have started after a contaminated corpse was exposed following a warm summer in the Arctic which saw temperatures rise as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
There were dramatic scenes as the Russian army’s Chemical, Radioactive and Biological Protection Corps, equipped with masks and bio-warfare protective clothing, flew to to regional capital Salekhard on a military Il-76 aircraft to deal with the emergency.
They were deployed by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to carry laboratory tests on the ground, detect and eliminate the focal point of the infection, and to dispose safely of dead animals.
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“As of now, there is no single diagnosis of the dangerous infection,” said a spokesman for the governor of Yamalo-Nenets, Dmitry Kobylkin.
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True. There’s a lot of history to back up your statement.
Probably woke up; not in the best of moods.
[Anyone involved in transporting this contaminated specimen here to NJ should be arrested immediately...]
I’d go for ‘quarantined’.
Awesome! One time would make a happy gal!
Could be an outbreak of the T-virus.
That has to be bull shite!
Yep
And it has nothing to do with them being communist, it has to do with them being Russian.
There are four spheres of cultural influence in the world, the Anglo, the Russian, the Chinese and the mohammedan.
Personally I think we should call a temporary truce and beat the mohammedans to a pulp before returning to our squabbles but others see it differently.
of possible interest
Tex is the man!
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