Investigators Find Over 9,000 Vials Of Unaccounted Deadly Pathogens At Fort Detrick

Investigators Find Over 9,000 Vials Of Unaccounted Deadly Pathogens At Fort Detrick:

"Investigators Find Over 9,000 Vials Of Unaccounted Deadly Pathogens At Fort Detrick

Nelson Hernandez
Washington Post
Thursday, June 18, 2009

An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick’s infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn’t know whether dangerous toxins were missing.

After four months of searching about 335 freezers and refrigerators at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, investigators found 9,220 samples that hadn’t been included in a database of about 66,000 items listed as of February, said Col. Mark Kortepeter, the institute’s deputy commander".