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Harrowing confrontation between contractors led to Fort Detrick bio-lab shutdown, NIH boss reveals
[Just The News] National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Bhattacharya, who was confirmed by the Senate in late March, had only just taken the helm at the agency which was at the center of much COVID-19-era controversy when he received a report about the high-security laboratory that caused his “blood to chill,” he told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday. He said the lab reported that one researcher slashed a hole in a containment suit of another researcher, potentially exposing them to a pathogen. Seems as though the details eventually emerge. Related: Jay Bhattacharya 05/09/2025 Heartwarming: Test Beagles' Journey From Fauci's NIH Experimentation Lab to Forever Home Jay Bhattacharya 05/07/2025 NIH shutters notorious dog lab accused of slaughtering beagles for four decades Jay Bhattacharya 04/04/2025 Big Pharma gravy train hits the skids under Trump, panicking revolving-door regulators, investors Related: Fort Detrick: 2025-05-09 FBI Investigating Alarming Incidents Amid "Poor Culture Of Safety" At NIH's High Security Pathogen Lab Fort Detrick: 2025-03-25 More than 10,000 [total] US troops deployed to secure southwest border Fort Detrick: 2025-01-26 CIA now says Covid DID come from Chinese lab in stunning reversal after years of denial under Biden Posted by: Skidmark 2025-05-14 |
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