Word: detrick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The U.S. government says the Soviet Union is engaging in a campaign intended to plant the idea that AIDS was created in a biological warfare experiment at Fort Detrick in Maryland...
...Pentagon believes the Soviets have succeeded in keeping their allegations alive because Fort Detrick--until 1969--was the Army's biological warfare development center, and today is the site for some AIDS-related research...
...September the Soviet weekly New Times reported that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just...
Cornell could have one of the Ivy League's best-kept secrets in Detrick Harmon's replacement...
...dangers associated with the project are expected to be minimized by conducting the experiments in secure laboratories, originally designed for use in germ-warfare testing at Fort Detrick in Frederick. Md Additionally, the strain of E. coli being used in the research is a special breed which does not survive well outside a laboratory...