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Title: US government shuts down military lab studying Ebola and plague over fears deadly bugs are escaping via wastewater
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URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ ... Ebola-plague-safety-fears.html
Published: Aug 8, 2019
Author: Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail
Post Date: 2019-08-08 08:23:41 by Ada
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Views: 60

Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague, and rabbit fever
The CDC issued a cease-and-desist notice last month citing a number of safety concerns
They said decontamination practices are not sufficient, and staff are not being retrained often enough

The US government has shut down all research at the nation's top biological warfare lab amid fears deadly microbes could leak into the water supply.

Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) and rabbit fever (caused by the bacterium tularemia).

But last month US health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a cease-and-desist order citing concerns that the lab does not have 'sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater.'

Caree Vander Linden, spokesperson for the center, said research is 'on hold' and may be suspended for months.

It comes just weeks after uproar over a new book on Lyme disease, Bitten, which suggested the tick-borne illness, now plaguing the US, was unwittingly unleashed on Americans by biological warfare researchers at Fort Detrick decades ago. Fort Detrick was one of just a few places in the US approved to study Ebola amid the fresh outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa (pictured: file image of researchers working at Fort Detrick in 2014) +1

Fort Detrick was one of just a few places in the US approved to study Ebola amid the fresh outbreak in sub-Saharan Africa (pictured: file image of researchers working at Fort Detrick in 2014)

The cease-and-desist notice automatically terminated the center's registration with the Federal Select Agent Program, which grants special permission for the study and possession disease-causing materials.

In order to get re-approved, the center will have to improve its decontamination processes.

Regulators also took issue with the lack of periodic re-training of staff who are handling the dangerous bacteria.

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