Bioterrorism

Army Anthrax Lab Security Called Lax

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 20th, 2002

Security has improved at an Army laboratory that works with anthrax since the deadly microbes were mailed to two senators, but during much of the 1990s, it was not stringent enough to prevent a possible theft, former scientists at the post said.

One former researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, said nothing would have prevented workers from removing deadly germs from the labs.

"As far as carrying anything out, microorganisms are small,'' said Luann Battersby, a biologist who left USAMRIID voluntarily in 1998 after eight years. "The problem would be getting in, not getting...

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