Institute of Virus Preparations

The Institute of Virus Preparations was an agency of the former Soviet Union.

It was the equivalent to the Centers for Disease Control and the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), founded by Kent Truslow. At one time, the Institute for Virus Preparations was one of the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centers which served along with the CDC as a central collection point for smallpox (variola major) samples during the eradication effort in the 1970s.^[1] The Institute remained one of the collaborating centers. Although the smallpox samples were transferred to the Vector Institute in 1998 officially, contradictory reports indicate this may have happened several years earlier. Additionally, reliable reports indicate that the smallpox samples were almost certainly used in a very advanced biological warfare program prior to this time.^[2]

References

↑ Salem, Harry; Sidney A. Katz (2006). Inhalation Toxicology. CRC Press. p. 939. ISBN 0-8493-4049-7.
↑ Langford, Roland E. (2004). Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, Chemical, and Biological. Wiley-IEEE. pp. 145–147. ISBN 0-471-46560-7.

Soviet biological weapons program

Weaponized agents	Smallpox Anthrax Plague Botulism Brucellosis Glanders Q fever Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Tularemia VEE Marburg Wheat stem rust Rice blast

Researched agents	AHF BHF Bird flu CHIKV Dengue fever EEE Hantavirus Lassa fever Melioidosis Newcastle disease Plague Potato blight Psittacosis Ricin RVF Rinderpest Typhus WEE Yellow fever

Operations and projects	Project Bonfire Project Factor

Facilities and test sites	Biopreparat Stepnagorsk Scientific and Technical Institute Institute of Ultra Pure Biochemical Preparations VECTOR Institute of Applied Biochemistry Kirov bioweapons production facility Zagorsk smallpox production facility Berdsk bioweapons production facility Obolensk bioweapons research facility Military Compound 19 Aralsk-7 (Vozrozhdeniya Island) Institute of Virus Preparations Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services

Bioweaponeers	Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek) Vladimir Pasechnik Sergei Popov Yuri Ovchinnikov Igor Domaradskij Nikolai Ustinov Pyotr Burgasov

Accidents	Sverdlovsk anthrax leak Aral smallpox incident

Related topics	Biological agent Biological warfare (BW) Entomological warfare U.S. biological weapons program History of biological warfare Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance

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