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US Military-Biological Footprint in Africa Expanding Rapidly: Russian Defence Ministry

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"The documents at our disposal confirm that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is increasing rapidly," Major General Aleksey Rtishev told a briefing on Tuesday.The United States deployed branches of naval military medical center in Ghana and Djibouti, Rtishev added."Active work in the region is being carried out by research organisations of the US Department of Defence. For example, branches of the military medical center of the naval forces are located in Ghana and Djibouti, where active work is being carried out in natural foci of diseases, isolation and sequencing of pathogens," Rtishev said.

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© AP Photo / Nati HarnikFILE - In this file photo from Nov. 15, 2014, medical workers in protective suits transport Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola, from a jet that brought him from Sierra Leone to a waiting ambulance that will take him to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. The World Health Organization says Thursday, March 12, 2015, its tally of Ebola deaths has passed the grim milestone of 10,000, mostly in West Africa. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

FILE - In this file photo from Nov. 15, 2014, medical workers in protective suits transport Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola, from a jet that brought him from Sierra Leone to a waiting ambulance that will take him to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. The World Health Organization says Thursday, March 12, 2015, its tally of Ebola deaths has passed the grim milestone of 10,000, mostly in West Africa. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) - Sputnik India, 1920, 24.12.2024

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US military-biological presence on the African continent is growing at a rapid pace, Deputy Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian armed forces said.

"The documents at our disposal confirm that the US military-biological presence on the African continent is increasing rapidly," Major General Aleksey Rtishev told a briefing on Tuesday.

The United States deployed branches of naval military medical center in Ghana and Djibouti, Rtishev added.

"Active work in the region is being carried out by research organisations of the US Department of Defence. For example, branches of the military medical center of the naval forces are located in Ghana and Djibouti, where active work is being carried out in natural foci of diseases, isolation and sequencing of pathogens," Rtishev said.