Russian media calls for Fort Detrick probe

Screenshot of Russian media Sputnik

Russian media Sputnik reported that an international online petition calling for For Detrick probe was hacked by hackers who were reportedly “based in the US.”

The article titled “Who’s Afraid of Fort Detrick” introduced the notorious history of safety failures of the US military laboratory Fort Detrick which is the center of its biowarfare research. The lab worked on “a wide range of biowarfare pathogens” and was shut down in the middle of 2019 for reasons which are “not clear” to the public.

Over four million people worldwide and more than 600,000 in the US alone have been killed by the Covid-19 pandemic has so far. The article said that it is “not unreasonable” to call for an investigation into the practices and records at Fort Detrick so as to “ascertain if it had any connection to the Covid-19 pandemic.” It also pointed out that the US is using Covid-19 origin tracing to “smear China while hypocritically suppressing any questions about its own conduct.”

At last the article said that the US seems “afraid to permit a probe” into Fort Detrick.