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	USAMRIID-NIAID Announce Research Partnership at Fort Detrick
		NIAID and USAMRIID have had a productive relationship over the years working on biodefense related diagnostics, drugs and vaccine research, and this effort located at Fort Detrick will uniquely marshal research capabilities while consolidating resources in response to the nation’s changing needs.
		USAMRIID intends to expand its current facilities and continue its critical mission of research on drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to safeguard the health of the nation’s armed forces.
		As the Department of Defense's lead laboratory for medical aspects of biological warfare defense, USAMRIID collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and academic centers of excellence worldwide.
	www3.niaid.nih.gov /news/newsreleases/2002/usamriid-niaid_partnership.htm (580 words)

	US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USAMRIID was the only United States Department of Defense laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous viruses at Biosafety Level 4.
		USAMRIID investigators contribute to advances in scientific knowledge and collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and academic centers of excellence worldwide.
		USAMRIID was the first bio-facility of its type to research the Ames strain of anthrax, determined through genetic analysis to be the bacteria used in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USAMRIID (221 words)

	Business Wire: GenPhar's Vaccine Platform Yields Promising Res... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		USAMRIID is the Department of Defense's lead laboratory for medical aspects of biological warfare defense.
		USAMRIID tested the effectiveness of the vaccine in extreme conditions that might be experienced in a biowarfare scenario so the challenge dose of Marburg virus was a thousand times greater than the lethal concentration.
		"USAMRIID is at the forefront of vaccine development to mitigate the threat of bioterrorism and biowarfare," said Dr. John Dong, chief scientific officer of GenPhar.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:92511236&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (811 words)

	Managing occupational exposures to potential bioterrorist agents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		To assess the effectiveness of the USAMRIID program--and to provide helpful information to other institutions involved in biological threat agent research--Rusnak and her team reviewed potential laboratory exposures at the Institute between 1989 and 2002.
		The USAMRIID team also compared their recent experience with data on laboratory acquired infections during the offensive biological warfare research program conducted by the U.S. between 1943 and 1969.
		USAMRIID, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland, is a subordinate laboratory of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=12344 (1151 words)

	USAMRIID
		The many dedicated members of the USAMRIID staff are proud to have you peruse our program and to share information on the impressive accomplishments and high caliber of our nationally important research program.
		The outstanding national reputation of USAMRIID has been built over the years by numerous scientists and technical staff working in a variety of ways to protect both military personnel and civilians from the threat of infectious diseases.
		USAMRIID is looking forward to continued collaborations with industry partners and with other agencies, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Homeland Security, to develop medical countermeasures that will protect all of our citizens, both military and civilian.
	www.usamriid.army.mil (377 words)

	Vaccination with anthrax capsule protects against experimental infection in animals
		USAMRIID scientists have extensively studied protective antigen, demonstrating that PA alone confers protection in animal challenge studies with both rabbits and nonhuman primates.
		USAMRIID, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland, is the lead medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program, and plays a key role in national defense and in infectious disease research.
		USAMRIID is a subordinate laboratory of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-12/uamr-vwa120104.php (650 words)

	The Biowarriors
		In the past year, USAMRIID has handed 14 biological tests over to the Defense Department's advanced developer, to be used in the field and as part of a national laboratory response network coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
		One bright spot: USAMRIID scientists and colleagues at the University of California at San Diego have been able to stop the replication of the smallpox virus in laboratory cultures with a derivative of an antiviral medicine called cidofovir, used to treat AIDS complications.
		Scientists like USAMRIID's Friedlander are already mining the data for clues in the sequence of chemical building blocks in anthrax's DNA that will lead to better diagnosis and treatment, much the way drug companies are using the human genome sequencing to find proteins involved with spurring or blocking disease.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/Bioter/thebiowarrors.html (2991 words)

	USAMRIID supports West Nile Virus investigations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		USAMRIID's mission is conducting research to develop medical countermeasures--vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and information--to protect U.S. service members from biological threats and emerging diseases.
		In April, USAMRIID provided hands-on training in medical diagnostic techniques for West Nile virus to colleagues from the Bronx Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, and the University of Connecticut.
		USAMRIID's team was assigned to Westchester County, where they focused their efforts on two areas known to be prevalent in house sparrow habitat.
	www.dcmilitary.com /army/standard/5_36/national_news/2027-1.html (1776 words)

	CIDRAP >> Anthrax escapes lab room at USAMRIID; one worker exposed
		USAMRIID is at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Md.
		Although USAMRIID is involved in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) study of last fall's anthrax cases, Dasey said the research in the room in question is part of USAMRIID's core biodefense program and is not related to the FBI investigation.
		COL Edward Eitzen, USAMRIID commander, told the installation's workforce Apr 22 that the facility is safe and that environmental and occupational health procedures there will be enhanced, the Army said.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/bt/anthrax/news/detrick.html (599 words)

	'No One Asked Questions'
		USAMRIID strongly defends its security policies and says there is no evidence that any hazardous microbes in its care were stolen or misused.
		While not disputing that problems had occurred, USAMRIID officials say the chaos of the early 1990s was the product of a major shift in emphasis after the Persian Gulf War.
		Two of the scientists interviewed, Assaad and Crosland, lost their jobs at USAMRIID as a result of budget cuts in 1997 and have since filed an age discrimination lawsuit, alleging that the Army chose older scientists for the job cuts.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/nooneaskedques.html (1500 words)

	Air Evacuation under High-Level Biosafety Containment: The Aeromedical Isolation Team
		After arriving at USAMRIID, the patient is transferred from the VATI into the containment-care suite through a plastic sleeve connected to a port on an outside wall.
		Animal handlers were trained in the use of suits and respirators, containment methods, decontamination, and waste disposal; 450 monkeys were humanely euthanized; and team members obtained specimens of blood and tissue for histopathologic and virologic studies and sealed and decontaminated the facility by paraformaldehyde fumigation followed by conventional disinfectants (16).
		None became ill, which suggested that the epizootic strain was not virulent for humans (17), and none of the 42 USAMRIID personnel participating became infected.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol5no2/christopher.htm (2620 words)

	USAMRIID - Education
		Military and civilian medical and public health professionals must become proficient in recognizing that a biological attack has occurred, activating the appropriate agencies and personnel to investigate the event, treating casualties, and preventing spread of disease.
		USAMRIID and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) jointly conduct the Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties Course.
		The course is approved postgraduate education for physicians and nurses, and is approved military education for entry on the Officer Record Brief.
	www.usamriid.army.mil /education (382 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Nicholas D. Kristof \| Case of the Missing Anthrax
		The 400 pages of documents, which I've obtained and which were described by The Hartford Courant earlier this year, quote a newly arrived officer named Michael Langford as saying that he found "little or no organization," "little or no accountability," "a very lax and unorganized system" and signs of covert work and cover-ups.
		Usamriid says that it rechecked this year and was able to account for virtually all of the missing specimens except one set that would have been irradiated to render it harmless.
		Z left Usamriid in 1999, he was making $58,000 a year -- and jumped to a $150,000-a-year job with a private contractor.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/07.20D.krs.anthrax.htm (736 words)

	USATODAY.com - Anthrax slip-ups raise fears about planned biolabs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He knew enough to grow alarmed when his officemate complained, as she had frequently of late, about sloppy handling of samples coming into the lab that could be tainted with anthrax.
		Fear that spores had escaped into the community in USAMRIID's dirty laundry prompted officials to dispatch technicians to the base's laundry at the Jeanne Bussard Center, a rehabilitation center for the developmentally disabled in Frederick.
		USAMRIID's Henchal suspects that a researcher who handled a poorly decontaminated container may have spread the Ames spores outside of the containment area.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/biotech/2004-10-13-anthrax-labs_x.htm (2309 words)

	(In Person) Diagnostic defense (IVDT archive, May 02)
		USAMRIID's interests in the last five years have been to develop smaller, self-contained systems that can be used outside the big laboratories.
		USAMRIID is what we call a Level D laboratory in the National Laboratory Response Network that's sponsored by CDC.
		USAMRIID is not meant to be a front-line patient-care provider and so it was appropriate at the time, for example, during the incidents on Capitol Hill, that some of the other facilities be involved, such as the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Washington, DC) and the National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda, MD).
	www.devicelink.com /ivdt/archive/02/05/005.html (2585 words)

	I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		USAMRIID continues to be one of the few laboratories in the free world where research can be conducted on such virulent organisms with minimum risk to laboratory personnel and no risk to the surrounding environment.
		USAMRIID was judged to be the Number One laboratory in the In-house Laboratory Independent Research Program (ILIR) and received a $50,000 bonus to expand its ILIR research.
		USAMRIID was selected as the top Army laboratory in the ILIR competition and received a bonus of $100,000 to be applied to future ILIR studies.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usamriid/bw-hist.htm (5347 words)

	The Double Life of Steven Hatfill? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		USAMRIID is home to a vast collection of nightmare pathogens and organisms—Lassa fever, monkey pox, plague, and various strains of anthrax, including the new AMES strain identified by the army in 1980.
		USAMRIID should be one of the most secure locations on the face of the Earth.
		USAMRIID refused to respond to questions regarding Hatfill, other than to confirm his position in the Virology Division and to stress that “he did not work with anthrax” there. Hatfill also refused to comment on this investigation.
	www.angelfire.com /ex/projecthatfill/seed.html (7825 words)

	TESTIMONY
		USAMRIID’s mission is to develop the medical products, strategies, procedures, information, and training for medical defense of our service members against biological warfare and endemic infectious diseases that require biocontainment.
		USAMRIID participated in an interagency conference call on the morning of 17 October, updating participants on the results of the antibiotic susceptibility profile.
		A written progress report was hand-carried to the FBI on 22 October for a discussion of USAMRIID data in comparison with that of other laboratories contributing to the ongoing analysis and investigation.
	www.senate.gov /~gov_affairs/103101parker.htm (752 words)

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