Fort Detrick

Pathophysiology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21701-5011... 

Dacre JC, Rosenblatt DH. 1987. Drinking water criteria for the groundwater pollutant diisopropyl methylphosphonate (DIMP). Fort Detrick, MD Army Biomedical Research and Development Lab. NTIS No. AD-A186-562. 

Rosenblatt DH, Miller TA, Dacre JC, et al. 1975a. Problem definition studies on potential environmental pollutants. I. Toxicology and ecological hazards of 16 substances at the RMA. Technical Report 7508. U.S. Army Medical Bioengineering Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD. 

Franz, David R. Defense Against Toxin Weapons. Rev. ed. Fort Detrick, MD United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 1997. 

Kortepeter, Mark, George Christopher, Ted Cieslak, Randall Culpepper, Robert Darling, Julie Pavlin, John Rowe, Kelly McKee, Jr., and Edward Eitzen, Jr., eds. Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook. 4th ed. Fort Detrick, MD United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, February 2001. 

Meier, E.R, M.C. Warner, W.H. Dennis, W.F. Randall, and T.A. Miller. 1976. Chemical Degradation of Military Standard Formulations of Organophosphate and Carbamate Pesticides. I. Chemical Hydrolysis of Diazinon. U.S. Army Med. Bioengin. Res. Dev. Lab., Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD. Tech. Rep. 7611. 32 pp. 

Isolation Procedures Once a victim of chemical or biological agents or weapons gets to the hospital or another healthcare facility, that person may have to abide by patient isolation procedures. These include Standard Precautions, Airborne Precautions, Droplet Precautions, and Contact Precautions. These precautions are spelled out in the third edition of Medical Management Of Biological Casualties Handbook published by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease located at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. 

Also in 2002, government scientists revealed that over two dozen dangerous biological agents including anthrax, and Ebola went unaccounted for in the early 1990s at the US Army Medical Research Unit (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. The location of these agents, which were subject to removal without authorization, remains a mystery. 

In June of 2003, the U.S. Army unearthed 113 bacteria-containing vials, including live strains of brucellosis and non-virulent anthrax, during excavation of its Fort Detrick site to eliminate toxic chemicals and hazardous waste. (Credit The Council for Responsible Genetics)... 

In another case in February of 2004, a researcher was exposed to Ebola virus at the United States Army laboratory at Fort Detrick, MD. 

Drugs There is an antitoxin stored at the CDC. To arrange to use this antitoxin, call your state health department (or CDC at 404-639-2206 or 404-639-3753 workdays, or call weekends or evenings at 404-639-2888). This chemotherapy (antitoxin) available from CDC is a licensed trivalent equine antitoxin for serotypes A, B, and E. There is no reversal of botulism disease with this drug, but the antitoxin does usually prevent further nerve damage. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has a heptavalent equine despeciated antitoxin for serotypes A - G (IND). DOD also has pentavalent toxoid (vaccine) for serotypes A - E (IND). The currently recommended schedule is for use at zero, two, and twelve weeks with a one year booster. This vaccine is supposed to induce solidly protective antitoxin levels in greater that 90 percent of those vaccinated after one year. Contact USAMRIID, (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), Fort Detrick, Maryland. Tel. 301-619-2833. 

Vaccines IND 610 (inactivated whole cell vaccine given as single injection) is available through USAMRIID Fort Detrick, MD 21702 and Q-Vax (CSL Ltd., Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA). This vaccine is effective in eliciting protection against exposure, but severe local reactions to this vaccine may be seen in those persons who already possess immunity. 

This list is supplied to us, for distribution in this format, freely by JRCAB. who maintains it and updates it every two years JRCAB may be contacted directly at Fort Detrick, Maryland, at 301-619-2991 or DSN 343-2001, website httoJ/www.armvmedicine.armv.mil/ircab. 

Cutting Edge - A History of Fort Detrick, Maryland. (4th ed., October), 2000. 

N. L. Vora, Electrochemical Treatment of Breast Cancer with Direct Current, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012, U.S., Report on Award Number DAMD17-96-1-6184 (June 1999). S. L. David, D. R. Absolom, C. R. Smith, J. Gams and M. A. Herbert, Cancer Research 45 (1985) 5625. 

USAMRIID, Medical Management of Biological Casualties, 3rd ed., Fort Detrick, MD,1998. 

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