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  • 2018-09-24 (xsd:date)
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  • who claimed that the Lugar Lab performed secret experiments on humans."A preliminary examination of only a portion of the documents – and there are … thousands of pages delivered to me from my friends in Georgia – shows that behinds the walls of the Lugar Laboratory (en)
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  • Update: U.S. Embassy in Georgia: "No clinical trials have ever been held at the Lugar Center"The United States Embassy in Georgia provided Polygraph.info with the following comment."Lugar Center’s mission is to contribute to the protection of citizens from biological threats, promote public and animal health through infectious disease detection, epidemiological surveillance and research for the benefit of Georgia, the Caucasus region and the global community. No clinical trials have ever been held at the Lugar Center. The medications used in Georgia to treat and cure hepatitis C have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, as well as the European Medicines Agency, for the treatment of hepatitis C infection in humans, and they do not need any additional testing. These certificates of approval are recognized by markets both in Georgia and around the world. The role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the Lugar Center is to provide technical assistance in the areas of public health laboratory capacity building and quality assurance. The CDC’s role within the Hepatitis C Elimination Program in Georgia is to provide technical support to the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs for data analysis to monitor progress towards HCV Elimination," Christopher A. Davenport, Press and Information Attaché at the U.S. Embassy Tbilisi wrote to Polygraph.info via email. Neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nor the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) conduct any of the testing or analysis for the hepatitis C program. That work is conducted solely by the NCDC.Over the last few years, Georgia’s Central Public Health Reference Laboratory -- the so-called Lugar Lab" – has repeatedly been attacked by some Moscow insiders and politicians. The attacks usually begin a bombshell "revelation" that is instantly picked up by the Kremlin-controlled media (en)
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