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Fort Detrick

American  
[dee-trik] / ˈdi trɪk /

noun

  1. a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.


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“What did the U.S. do at the Fort Detrick base within its territory?”

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2022

The center is based at Fort Detrick, Md., where the U.S. government conducts research into biological weapons.

From Washington Times Mar. 9, 2022

Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., and into whether cold-chain imports, the process by which frozen food is transported from abroad, could have brought the virus to Wuhan.

From Washington Post Aug. 31, 2021

On Wednesday, he said the W.H.O. should investigate labs in Fort Detrick and elsewhere in the United States that research coronaviruses.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2021

He was a local boy who had grown up near Fort Detrick.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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