[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Detrick anthrax

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Anthrax escaped at Army lab in '01, '02

Baltimore Sun
April 19, 2006

The Army's biological weapons defense laboratory at Fort Detrick 
probably had multiple episodes of anthrax contamination as workers 
strove to process a flood of samples sent there for testing in 2001 and 
2002, an internal report says.

The report contains previously undisclosed details about the sometimes 
sloppy practices that allowed anthrax spores to escape from biosafety 
containment labs at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of 
Infectious Diseases. No one was hurt by the released spores.

Security measures were tightened after the Army acknowledged one of the 
accidental releases in April 2002. No other breaches of containment - 
the confirmed presence of agents where they should not be - have since 
been reported.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.sbriefs19apr19,0,5658021.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

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