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Fort Detrick Area B is a 399-acre proving ground and was a disposal area for chemical, biological, and radiological material until 1970. In 2009, it was listed as a superfund site on the National Priorities List with four so-called "source areas": chemical waste disposal pits, a landfill, the Area B-Grid and the Area B-20 South burn area.
USAMRDC Headquarters at Fort Detrick, Maryland, supports subordinate commands worldwide.Its medical research laboratories and institutes focus on different areas of science and technology (S&T), such as biomedical research in infectious diseases, combat casualty care, operational medicine, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, chemical and biological defense, combat dentistry, and laser ...
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.
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 National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is a government biodefense research laboratory created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and located at the sprawling biodefense campus at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, USA.
Willard Place, on Fort Detrick, is named in his honor. Albert Nickel, a 53-year-old animal caretaker, died in 1964 after being bitten by an animal infected with Machupo virus. Nickel Place, on Fort Detrick, is named in his honor. The army made details of these deaths public in 1975.
A Consent Statement (1955) for one of the Operation Whitecoat experiments at Fort Detrick. Operation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973. The program pursued medical research using volunteer enlisted personnel who were eventually nicknamed ...