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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @07:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-your-water? dept.

Safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus.

"Research is currently on hold," the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md., said in a statement on Friday. The shutdown is likely to last months, Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman, said in an interview.

The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a "cease and desist order" last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have "sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater" from its highest-security labs.

[...] The suspended research involves certain toxins, along with germs called select agents, which the government has determined have "the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health or to animal or plant products." There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 09 2019, @04:20PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 09 2019, @04:20PM (#877959) Journal

    Actually, it sounds more like another shampoo. Or, facial wash. Or, maybe a hair conditioner. Looking at labels on the wife's beauty products can make you feel hungry. Lime and avacado? Maybe it opens your pores or something?

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