[CPEO-MEF] BIOWEAPONS: Army rejects Ft. Detrick (MD) petition

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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