Institute of Applied Biochemistry

The Institute of Applied Biochemistry is a research laboratory and bioweapons production facility located in Omutninsk, Kirov Oblast.[1] For a time in the 1980s, the facility was directed by Ken Alibek.[2] Wild rodents like rats that live in the woods outside the factory are chronically infected with the "Schu-4 military strain" of tularemia due to a "small leak" in a basement pipe found in the twilight years of the USSR to be dripping a viral suspension into the ground.[2]

## References

1. ↑ "Omutninsk". GlobalSecurity.org. https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/omutninsk.htm.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Preston, Richard (9 March 1998). "THE BIOWEAPONEERS". pp. 52-65 (The New Yorker).

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