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...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...
Tosteson didn't return repeated phone calls, but Murphy said his Fort Detrick laboratory is specially sealed and sterilized and is run only by well-trained personnel...
Building 550 is an unprepossessing two-story, barracks-like structure in the U.S. Army's old chemical and germ warfare center at Fort Detrick. Md. Next week it will become the site of an important experiment. Converted at a cost of $250,000, the facility has been certified by the National Institutes of Health as the nation's first P-4 laboratory, where the riskiest genetic research now permitted by the NIH can be conducted. The lab's initial test will attempt to answer two vital questions: Can recombinant DNA research create dangerous organisms...
...sealed environment, airlocks, decontamination systems, showers for workers after experiments, and sealed cabinets accessible only through attached gloves. Some "worst case" experiments, involving animal tumor viruses, will begin in the trailer this summer. NIH is also converting some of the abandoned germ-warfare labs at Maryland's Fort Detrick into similar super-containment facilities. In addition to the labs, the guidelines require the use of the self-destructing, escape-proof microbes for certain higher-risk experiments...
...come to the most important point of all: the enormous difference between the danger of causing a laboratory infection and the further danger of unleashing an epidemic. In Camp Detrick, working for 25 years on the most communicable and virulent pathogens known, 423 laboratory infections were seen, most caused by respiratory pathogens. Yet there was not a single case of secondary spread to any person outside the laboratory. Similarly, in the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service 150 laboratory infections were recorded, with one case of transmission to a relative. Elsewhere in the world there have been...