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Outbreak of the deadly ‘California flu’ in Ukraine 27.1.2016

Question for written answer P-000636-16
to the Commission
Rule 130
Eleftherios Synadinos (NI)

According to an online publication[1] and other information, at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers have died and 200 are still hospitalised after the accidental leak of the ‘California flu’ virus from an American laboratory near Kharkov in eastern Ukraine.

The spread of this dangerous virus has been confirmed by the deputy commander of the army of the Donetsk People's Republic, Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Basurin, who said: ‘According to the Ukrainian army medical corps, there is an epidemic among military personnel. According to medical staff, the virus first causes a sudden fever that cannot be treated even with antibiotics and death occurs two days later. So far 20 soldiers have died from this unknown virus and an attempt is being made to cover up the whole thing.’

By 22 January the virus had spread further and was out of control: ‘We continue to record an epidemic of a new incurable strain of flu in the ranks of the Ukrainian army,’ said Donetsk information office.

In light of the above, will the Commission say:

— What immediate measures does it intend to take to prevent the spread of the virus to EU Member States?

[1] https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-8-2016-000636_EN.html

[ClearCase_guy]

Mask up everybody.

[cuz1961]

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this forgotten episode:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160123215732/https://dninews.com/article/deadly-virus-leaked-us-laboratory-donbass-dpr-army-and-intelligence

[Tell It Right]

This was in 2016. Isn’t that the same year that Joe Biden threatened Ukraine if they didn’t quit investigating Hunter?

[Boogieman]

“Donetsk People’s Republic intelligence has reported...”

So, FSB.

[Widget Jr]

Dninews.com was functionally dead by April 2018, and shut down by August, 2020. This story was from January 2016.

Why go through the Internet Archive to find and post this?

For the claims of DPR Intelligence (Russian SVR/FSB):
What stopped this new, rapidly spreading, incurable disease from spreading?
Why wasn't there a global outbreak from a backwards country?
Why was this not reported by anyone other than the DPR?

The USSR tried to blame the US for creating and spreading AIDS during the 1980s.

Operation Infektion,Wikipedia,
Lessons From Operation “Denver,” the KGB's Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign, MIT Press Reader
Operation INFEKTION Soviet Bloc Intelligence and Its AIDS Disinformation Campaign, CIA Library, Archive.org.

The USSR is gone, the Soviet mentality remains. Does it have a home in the States now?