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Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several ‘serious’ protocol violations that year

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Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several ‘serious’ protocol violations that year

Several of the laboratory violations the CDC noted in 2019 concerned “non-human primates” infected with a “select agent”, the identity of which is unknown — it was redacted in all received documents, because disclosing the identity and location of the agent would endanger public health or safety, the agency says. In addition to Ebola, the lab works with other deadly agents like anthrax and smallpox.

Select agents are defined by the CDC as “biological agents and toxins that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products.”

Coronavirus: Army Experts Press Hard For Vaccines, Diagnostics

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“That’s the team we met with last night,” he said:

Dr. Margaret Pitt is the deputy science director at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, where she previously headed the aerobiology (airborne infection) and virology units.
Dr. Sheila Peel, veteran of Army research on HIV/AIDS, is chief of lab diagnostics & monitoring at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Silver Spring, Md.
Dr. Nelson Michael, a retired Army Medical Corps colonel, heads the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at WRAIR, where he formerly headed the HIV/AIDS unit.
Dr. Kavyon Modjarrad is both director of emerging infectious diseases at WRAIR and an assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda. He’s played a leading role in developing a Zika vaccine.
Col. Wendy Sammons-Jackson is director of the Military Infectious Disease Research Program Area for the Army Medical Research & Development Command at Fort Detrick, where she previously coordinated the response to Ebola.

— Read on breakingdefense.com/2020/03/coronavirus-army-experts-press-hard-for-vaccines-diagnostics/