Is it true that Japanese saboteurs were brought to the Far East?

According to a replicated version, a dangerous disease, which several thousand people are ill in Russia annually are nothing more than a biological weapon, which was used at one time used by the eastern neighbor for slow extermination of the population of Russia. We checked if it was true.

Here are what details can be read about this on a number of information sites: “Encephalitis was not known for the pioneers of Siberia, immigrants to the Far East until the 1930s. In the 1920s, an epidemic happened in Japan, several thousand people died. The carrier of the virus was a mosquito. Perhaps this was the first test of biological weapons using insects. But a mosquito is a too dangerous and unpredictable distributor of a deadly ailment. Therefore, Japanese militarists have chosen a slower but sure way of carrying a virus - a tick, widespread in the Far Eastern and Siberian taiga.

In 1937, an epidemic of an unknown disease began among the soldiers of the Far Eastern group of the Red Army, which often led to deaths. A special expedition of military microbiologists under the leadership of Professor Zilber was urgently sent from Moscow. They opened the virus, its carrier-tick. Almost immediately, they began to sin on the Japanese military. But there was no evidence. Only after the Second World War it became known about the existence of the notorious “detachment 731” of the Kwantun Army on the territory of Manchuria, which conducted experiments with biological weapons since 1933. It was that year, by the way, that our doctor Panov for the first time in the USSR made a clinical description of a new disease in the Far East, later named Kleshchev encephalitis. In 1945, after the USSR entered the war with Japan, by order of the commander of the Kwantun Army, General Otadzo Yamada, the secret military town of microbiologists was destroyed. However, all traces of the crime could not be hidden: the testimonies collected in this case were included in the materials of the Khabarovsk process over the Japanese military criminals in 1949. In Japan, the epidemic of mosquito encephalitis was suppressed and completely eliminated. In the USSR and Russia, tick -borne encephalitis turned out to be a shy bomb. In the 1960s, an infected tick exceeded the Yenisei, in the 1980s crawl through the Urals and is currently found throughout Russia. ”

In one form or another, the main ideas from this text are distributed by resources such as "Arguments and Facts", Inpearls.ru, "Right.ru" Neuronus.com and other sites. The well -known Russian economist, politician and publicist Mikhail Delyagin expressed the same point of view in one of the air broadcasts "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Tick ​​-borne encephalitis - This is a viral infection, which is characterized by fever, intoxication and damage to gray matter, and sometimes the shells of the brain and spinal cord. In a considerable percentage of cases, the disease leads to persistent neurological and psychiatric complications (sometimes incurable), but fatal outcomes are also frequent.

People and animals are infected by this virus due to tick bites. At the same time, an encephalitis tick is not a biological species at all, as many think, but only a designation of an infected individual. The tank and carrier of infection are Ixodic ticks, which are distinguished by more than 15 species, but only two are of epidemiological importance: Ixodes perculcatus (taiga) and Ixodes Ricinus (European). Ticks manifest the activity of ticks within two segments per year: May-June and August-September. As they say scientists, depending on a number of factors, from an infected individual can be from 2% to 6% of bitten people.

One of these factors is geography. Three varieties of the virus are distinguished: 1) Far Eastern - the most virulent (can cause severe forms of the disease), 2) Siberian - less virulenten, 3) Western - the causative agent of two -wave encephalitis (causes mild forms of the disease).

We, obviously, are interested in the Far Eastern virus - not only due to the deadly effect, but also because the conspiracy theory (if it is true) should be devoted to him.

Indeed, the opening of the tick-borne encephalitis virus took place in the 1930s in the Far East. The first theoretical description of the infection, highlighting it among its own kind, gave a Soviet neuropathologist Alexander Panov in 1935. Then, in 1937-1939, the epidemic of spring-summer tick-borne encephalitis was Confirmed, and her comprehensive study began in the Far East by expeditions of the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR. In 1937, at the autopsy of the deceased patient, the virologist Mikhail Chumakov I got infected tick -borne encephalitis (cutting with a bone), which eventually resulted in a serious chronic disease, which proceeded for life until 1993. The fate of his direct chief Leo Zilber, who was the first to allocate a dangerous virus, was no better. Soon Zilber was accused In an attempt to poison with this infection the Moscow water supply (which in itself is absurd - tick -borne encephalitis is not transmitted through water) and exiled to the north to camps. Only in 1944, with the intercession of prominent figures, among whom was the writer Veniamin Kaverin, his brother Zilber, the virologist was free.

There was a sad Japanese "Detachment 731", really conducting experiments with biological weapons, which ultimately led to the death of more than one hundred people. Many books have been written about him, dozens of films have been shot, so we will not delay in his story in detail. Another thing is important - two of the above historical realities do not join among themselves poorly. How Notes Virusologist, Honored Doctor of Russia Vadim Reznik, specialists of the “detachment 731” developed “bacteriological weapons using pathogens transmitted by airborne droplets through water or using fleas and rodents. We are talking about typhoid, plague, hill. Perhaps about Japanese encephalitis. It, unlike tick -borne, is transmitted by mosquitoes. Certain cases of Japanese encephalitis were marked in South Primorye. But due to the cold climate, the type of insect-carrier of this disease does not survive in the conditions of the Russian Far East. ” It is no coincidence that the official name of the detachment was The Main Directorate for Water supply and prevention of units of the Kwantun Army. At the same time, the main activity of the detachment unfolded after 1936, when it was Integrated to the Kwantun Army. Recall that tick -borne encephalitis was first described a year earlier.

And finally, more than ten years ago, biologists of the Ural State University Installed The origin of the tick -borne encephalitis virus. As it turned out, he took root in the Urals 400 years ago with the beginning of the active colonization of Siberia. From the natural hearth, animals brought the disease that accompanied a person along his trade routes, and then she reached at least to the Baltic states.

Thus, there is no serious reason to assume that the tick -borne encephalitis virus was thrown into Soviet Russia by Japanese saboteurs. It should be noted that the Western conspiracyologists Suspect In anthropogenic origin, another dangerous ailment is a lime disease, which is also transferred to ixodic ticks. But this is not more than a dubious theory.

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Read on the topic:

1. A. D. Ammosov. Tick ​​-borne encephalitis.
2. Ural biologists have established the origin of the tick -borne encephalitis virus
3. Tick-Borne EnCephalitis Virus Subtypes Emerged Through Rapid Vector Satches Rather than Gradal Evolution