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Fort Detrick (/ ˈ d iː t r ɪ k /) is a United States Army Futures Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program. [1]
The NBACC was created as a federal response to the anthrax letter attacks in 2001 as the first national laboratory operating under the Department of Homeland Security. [1] The Department of Homeland Security said the mission of the NBACC is "to provide the scientific basis for the characterization of biological threats and bioforensic analysis ...
The National Interagency Biodefense Campus is a facility in Frederick, MD at Fort Detrick. It hosts members of a scientific collaboration, the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research. Planning began in 2002, and construction of the NICB began in 2005. [1] The center was expected to cost over $1 billion. [2]
Oct. 30—On the corner of Chandler Street within Fort Detrick in Frederick, there used to be a cluster of World War II wood-frame barracks. That's where the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition ...
May 21—Staff Sgt. Thomas Gundersen lay motionless on the cement floor of the pavilion at Fort Detrick's Blue and Gray Field on Thursday morning. A few feet away, combat medics Neal Burnett and ...
The "Dan Crozier Building", at USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland. The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; / j uː ˈ s æ m r ɪ d /) is the United States Army's main institution and facility for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare.
The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick, Maryland, United States, beginning in 1943 under the control of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command.
Jul. 12—Although monkeypox only recently began dominating U.S. headlines, scientists at Fort Detrick have long been familiar with the virus. It's closely related to the virus that causes smallpox.