On the 18th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stressed at a regular press conference in response to questions about the US attack on China to obstruct the traceability of the virus, etc. If the US side really respects the facts, please open the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory and invite WHO experts to the United States to carry out traceability investigations.
So, what kind of laboratory is this Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory? What is the unseemly "cattiness" of this laboratory, which the US media calls "the darkest experimental center of the US government"? Let's take a look.
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The Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory, located in Maryland, USA, originated from the "Detrick Test Field" developed by the U.S. Army in 1942 for chemical and biological weapons. According to the U.S. "Politics" news website, in the early years, the Fort Detrick Biological Laboratory was regarded as the "darkest experimental center" of the U.S. government. More than 70 years ago, the U.S. military chose Fort Detrick as the most important site for secret bacteriological warfare, storing deadly "specific biological agents and toxins" such as Ebola virus, bacillus anthracis, and Brucella. For years, it has been a secretive base for the CIA's chemical experiments and mind control experiments.
According to the New York Times and other media reports, in July 2019, the institute was asked by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to suspend research work on highly pathogenic pathogens, citing "no effective enough system to purify wastewater discharged from this highest-security laboratory." However, the CDC refused to release other information on the grounds of "national security."
Around the same time, an outbreak of respiratory illness in a community of retirees in Virginia drew public attention. At that time, 54 people developed symptoms such as fever, cough and general weakness, and 2 died. Outbreaks of respiratory illness in older susceptible people are not uncommon, but usually occur during the flu season, not the summer, local health officials said. Since the community is only about an hour's drive from fort Detrick Biology Laboratory, there was a suspicion of virus leakage at the time.
According to US media reports, in the early 1990s, the biological laboratory had an incident in which deadly strains and strains such as anthrax were lost. In March 2020, some U.S. citizens spontaneously launched a petition on the White House petition website, asking the government to release the real reason for the sudden suspension of research work at the Fort Detrick laboratory in 2019, explain the truth about the deletion of a large number of news reports about the laboratory, and clarify whether the laboratory has a virus leak.
According to the New York Times, the number of biological laboratories in the United States has increased year by year, but there is a general lack of planning and supervision, and the safety of biological laboratories has become the biggest risk facing US regulators. Since 2003, there have been hundreds of accidental human exposures to deadly microbes in U.S. laboratories, which may have led to direct contacts being infected with deadly viruses that spread to communities through these individuals, creating epidemic outbreaks, USA Today reported.
(Edited by Wang Hexiang)