Biolabs in your Backyard

US urged to explain truth behind closure of Fort Detrick biolab

'More coincidentally, at the end of July 2019 when the Fort Detrick biolab was closed, two nursing homes nearby found respiratory diseases of unknown cause that caused pneumonia. In September 2019, Maryland, where the Fort Detrick Biolab is located, reported that the number of EVALI patients had doubled.'

'Public information shows that Fort Detrick, Md., was created in the middle of World War II and became the center for America's biological warfare efforts. It stores deadly viruses such as Ebola virus, Bacillus anthracis and Brucella.'

'In 1989, the Fort Detrick biolab, a laboratory that should have the highest level of biological security, had risk of Ebola virus leaking. According to US media reports, in the early 1990s, the Fort Detrick biolab reported the leak of anthrax and other deadly virus strains.'

'Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens disappeared from the Army's biological warfare research facility at Fort Detrick in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and recriminations among rival scientists there, documents from an internal Army inquiry show, as reported by the BALTIMORE SUN.'

[globaltimes.cn]