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| Title: | Health Agencies Deny US-Funded Biolabs | Africa Check |
| URL: | https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/health-agencies-deny-reports-us-funded-monkeypox-biolabs |
| Publisher: | Africa Check |
| Date published: | June 7, 2022 |
| Description: | Four days after the Tass articles, on 31 May, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control director-general Ifedayo Adetifa released a statement debunking Russia’s claims. “Nigeria has no laboratories where monkeypox virus is generated,” he says in the statement, adding that the claims are “not backed by any evidence”. On 30 May the US consulate in Nigeria also issued a statement, dismissing Russia’s claims as “pure fabrication”. And in a press briefing on 2 June, the WHO said the organisation hadn’t received any request from Russia to investigate “US biolabs” in Nigeria. |
