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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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Ms. Odam directs the Office of Human and Animal Research Oversight from Fort Detrick, Maryland, and she said her team ensures rigorous regulations are enforced on taxpayer-funded research.

From Washington Times Dec. 6, 2023

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

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2022

“It’s building this argument, sort of brick by brick, sometimes directly connecting Fort Detrick to the coronavirus, sometimes just you know, casting aspersions on the lab in general,” he said.

From Washington Post Oct. 5, 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

Now, at the meeting at Fort Detrick, Joe McCormick of the C.D.C. was convinced that Ebola virus does not travel easily, especially not through the air.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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