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Top News // 1 decade ago

Judge tosses lawsuit over anthrax articles

A federal judge in Virginia Friday dismissed a suit against The New York Times by a scientist who said he was defamed in a 2001 series on anthrax attacks.

Top News // 1 decade ago

2001 anthrax outbreak still a mystery

Five years after anthrax-laced letters infected 16 people -- five of whom died -- in the eastern United States, the case is still a mystery.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Chevron, Keenan building power plant

Chevron Corp. and Keenan Development will build a $100 million central utility plant for Maryland's National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Spies may have stolen U.S. bioweapons

Soviet spies may have stolen deadly viruses from a U.S. biodefense laboratory in Maryland in the 1980s and shipped them to Moscow, a report says.

Top News // 1 decade ago

U.S. biodefense lab raises concerns

The Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory in Maryland that will simulate calamitous bioterrorism attacks, it was reported Sunday.

Science News // 1 decade ago

$1 billion for labs to fight bioterrorism

The U.S. government plans to spend at least $1 billion on new facilities to fight bioterrorism over the next decade.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Experts: Smallpox could be sent in mail

The anthrax letter attacks in 2001 are not the first time an infectious agent has been spread through the mail. A recent article in a scientific journal describes two outbreaks of smallpox in 1901 that were attributed to infected letters, and bioweapon ex

Science News // 1 decade ago

Two labs confirmed Pentagon anthrax

Anthrax was confirmed twice in samples collected from a Pentagon mail facility initially closed last week and then opened after being declared free of the pathogen, United Press International has learned.

Science News // 1 decade ago

BioWar: Anthrax cross-contamination?

This week in BioWar: Buildings are reopening and officials at the Pentagon and in nearby Fairfax County, Va., with a stack of negative test results in their hands, are sending bioterrorism task forces home after responding to three positive anthrax test r

Science News // 1 decade ago

Anthrax tests at Pentagon negative

The Defense Department said late Tuesday 70 tests for anthrax conducted in and around the Pentagon grounds in Virginia, Monday and Tuesday, were negative.

Fort Detrick ( /ˈdiːtrɪk/) is a U.S. Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center for the United States' biological weapons program (1943–69).

Today, Fort Detrick's 1,200-acre (490 ha) campus supports a multi-governmental community that conducts biomedical research and development, medical materiel management, global medical communications and the study of foreign plant pathogens. It is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), with its bio-defense agency, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). It also hosts the National Cancer Institute-Frederick (NCI-Frederick) and will be home to the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR)

Fort Detrick is the largest employer in Frederick County, Maryland.

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