2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] BIOWEAPONS: Army rejects Ft. Detrick (MD) petition
 
Army rejects petition for study of biolabs


By Justin M. Palk
Frederick News-Post (MD)
July 1, 2008	

The U.S. Army Medical Command denied a group's petition for an independent study of the proposed expansion of biodefense labs at Fort Detrick.

In March, the group, Frederick Citizens for Biolab Safety, asked the Army to fund a National Academy of Sciences study of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases' plan to build a lab on post.

The new building would contain expanded biosecurity level-4 spaces where researchers study agents that pose a high risk of causing life-threatening disease for which no vaccine or therapy is available, such as Ebola and anthrax.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=76962

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