- Hello Jeff -- According to the CID, which is the military
agency investigating their "own" Ft. Detrick Lab for missing
pathogens, "no apparant crime in the missing virus case." It
actually is not a missing virus case but should be termed missing pathogen
case as bacteria are also involved (anthrax, plague et al.)
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- Frankly, I thought they might take the opportunity to
blame Dr. Ivins for the missing pathogens. In any event, there is no apparant
crime in the disapparance. This does not make me feel any more secure,
if true. By stating that there was no criminal act in the disapparance,
they are saying, in fact, that the pathogens went missing due to negligance.
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- If the lab is that disorderly than we may just have another
Plum Island on our hands. There have been a lot more pathgoens that have
gone missing over the years, since 1987 than VEE.
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- Seems bugs get checked in but they don't get "checked
out." What a roach motel!
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- Patty
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- No Crime Apparent In Missing Germ Case
- 4-22-9
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- FORT DETRICK, Md (UPI) -- No criminal misconduct
had been found as yet in the disappearance of a deadly germs from a U.S.
Army biomedical facility in Maryland, official said Wednesday.
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- The Army's Criminal Investigation Command said investigators
were nearly done with their probe into how the lethal pathogens disappeared
from Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory in Frederick, The Washington
Post reported.
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- Christopher Grey, a spokesman for the criminal investigation
division, said the command "has found no evidence to date of any criminality
related to the unaccounted-for items," the newspaper said.
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- Three small vials of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
were determined to have been unaccounted for last year, Caree Vander Linden,
spokeswoman for the laboratory, said.
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- The virus is mosquito borne and usually causes a mild
flu-like illness. However, it also cause brain inflammation and death.
It has potential for germ warfare but is far less lethal than some other
agents.
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- The existence of the investigation was first reported
by the Frederick News-Post.
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- http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/22/No-crime-apparent
- -in-missing-virus-case/UPI-93081240458877/
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
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