Maduro announced arrival in Venezuela of "germ warfare experts"
(Spanish CNN) - Saying that there are "germ warfare" in Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro announced that it has asked for help from international experts to investigate an alleged opposition plan to plant a virus in a hospital in the town of Maracay in the central state of Aragua.
"It's psychological warfare, we have defeated, inventing diseases in Venezuela. We are investigating and have arrived doctors, friends from around the world, including our sister Cuba who sent us germ warfare experts to determine who tried to do in Aragua this fascist right ".According to Maduro, this idea is part of an "international war" against Venezuela by people who claim "to kneel" to the country.
The president said that false evidence of an alleged epidemic hemorrhagic fever in the country and said it showed such an illness has been ruled by several national epidemiologists, but even the so-called right-wing thought to introduce a virus in the Central Hospital of Maracay.
Mature threatened legal action against individuals and companies that, in his opinion, cause capsizing malicious information."All that did violate the laws of our country, I have spoken with the prosecutor to the justice act swiftly and with the utmost vigor and severity the law allows. We must punish this people, justice will only allow these events are not repeated, "said the president.
The Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz said disseminate irresponsible statements about an alleged deadly epidemic could constitute a criminal offense.
The Medical College of Aragua and the FMV have focused for several weeks in a series of deaths that would have occurred especially at the Central Hospital of Maracay.