Talk:Fort Detrick

interesting source
In case anyone is watching this page. This article would make for an interesting source of information: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=bio23&date=20040923 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbecker (talk • contribs)


 * Please sign your posts with ~ . In addition, requests on talk pages are almost always ignored 99.9% of the time. WP:BB.Travb (talk) 04:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Conspiracy theory
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 * Possible note: Biological warfare center, with the recent expansion and recommisioning of Fort Detrick, the Biological warfare center has been listed as a potential concentration camp.

Please provide a source. thanks. Travb (talk) 04:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Unlikely -- real contingency plans for handling plague infected foreigners would like take the form of fatal airliner crashes with lots of flames...BaWaHaHaHa.


 * Come on. If you are going to create conspiracy theories you need to be more creative. This just relabels ordinary potential measures for quarantine and research on new plagues with a bad word. I mean where else would the USA have facilities for treating and researching a cure? You at least need to take some photos of Fredrick Maryland city limits signs being replaced with "Raccoon City" signs.

Propose adding text on National Research Council Report
Hi, I'd like to add a paragraph to the "post-cold war" section that discusses a recent National Research Council report about the possible toxic effects from past environmental contamination at Fork Detrick.


 * In 2012 the United States National Research Council published a report that reviewed two investigations of potential health hazards at Fort Detrick: a 2009 public health assessment conducted by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and a cancer investigation in Frederick County by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Frederick County Health Department.
 * The report found the two studies are unable to demonstrate whether people were harmed by groundwater contaminated with toxic pollutants from Area B of Fort Detrick. Furthermore, it is unlikely that additional studies could establish a link, because data on early exposures were not collected and cannot be obtained or reliably estimated now.

I'd appreciate any comments or edits. Earlgrey101 (talk) 16:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

1985 incident
i'm watching the bourne legacy and rachel weisz's charcter briefly mentions this incident... is this the same fort? should it be mentioned in this article? (i don't mean the brief mention in bourne) &asymp;Sensorsweep (talk) 18:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

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"This baseless allegation"?
The above doesn't sound that objective or encyclopedia-like to my ear. It's been a biological weapons lab for almost a century; that seems "baseful" enough to me. Membender (talk) 21:51, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Theories regarding the origin of coronavirus (COVID-19)
People recently have been speculating whether COVID-19 originated from Fort detrick. Many reports have shown that two months before the first case of COVID-19, Fort detrick was abruptly shut down following serious safety violations, in particular relating to the disposal of dangerous materials. Coincidentally, there were gew mysterious disease outbreak just 100 miles away from Fort Detrick, some experts called it flu while others responded with vaping as the cause. This raised huge suspicion between people, who began commenting on YouTube about whether Fort Detrick was the origin of COVID-19, questioning whether WHO should visit Fort Detrick. Despite many messages are being deleted by YouTube, it is still a heavily discussed topic by many chinese news sites, such as CGTN, Global times, China Now, etc. John Holbrook (talk) 16:29, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

(Sources) News reports about the mysterious outbreak: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPiUvhWobg&feature=youtu.be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfs7vu-3CyI&feature=youtu.be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vZMvMqvHg&feature=youtu.be
 * The article already mentions the conspiracy theories at the end of the "Post-Cold War (1990–present)" section. Also of relevance is our reliable sources policy. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 16:42, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Deleted article from military.com
not working old link for citation 34 due to it being deleted from military.com: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/11/24/cdc-inspection-findings-reveal-more-about-fort-detrick-research-suspension.html/amp

working link on wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20191127232721/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/11/24/cdc-inspection-findings-reveal-more-about-fort-detrick-research-suspension.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.203.81.48 (talk)


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Orphaned references in Fort Detrick
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Reference named "CDC": From COVID-19 misinformation:  From Outbreak (film):  From Rift Valley fever:  

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