27 Apr 2009

US Army may be missing disease samples

Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick.

Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

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He said the only other detail he could provide is that the investigation is ongoing. The Frederick News-Post Online

Earlier Ivins, a former researcher at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, committed suicide or was murdered after investigators were going to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attack. ( source )