Crisis in Ukraine and need for openness in US biological plans

A boy places flowers outside the Dutch embassy in Moscow on July 18, 2014. [Reuters]

The crisis in Ukraine has brought to the fore the threat the world continues to face from the risk of biological weapons and lack of transparency in biological activities of great powers, especially the United States.

This issue came strongly to the fore when Russia, whose army launched a military operation in Ukraine a month ago, claimed that a collection of dangerous pathogens biological labs in that country were being hastily destroyed, allegedly to conceal evidence of military biological research.