United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is a
military research institute for
medicine based at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland used for research of infectious disease that may have defensive applications against
biological warfare that would protect the citizens of the
United States.
USAMRIID was for a time the only
United States Department of Defense laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous
viruses at Biosafety Level 4. There is another at the
National Naval Medical Center currently.
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The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is a
military research institute for
medicine based at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland used for research of infectious disease that may have defensive applications against
biological warfare that would protect the citizens of the
United States.
USAMRIID was for a time the only
United States Department of Defense laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous
viruses at Biosafety Level 4. There is another at the
National Naval Medical Center currently.
USAMRIID is a critical resource for the Army, the Department of Defense, and the
United States. It has award-winning military and civilian
scientists, highly trained support personnel, and unique, state-of-the-art research facilities. Investigators at the facilities 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.
The research institute was the first bio-facility of its type to research the Ames strain of anthrax, determined through genetic analysis to be the
bacterium used in the
2001 anthrax attacks.
Popular Culture References
The organization's role in Ebola Reston outbreak of 1989 was the focus of Richard Preston's bestselling 1994
book The Hot Zone is a 1995 non-fiction [i] bio-thriller by Richard Preston [i] describing the origins of ...
and his subsequent book
The Demon in the Freezer. The former book provided loose source material for the 1995 biomedical movie thriller
Outbreak.USAMRIID was also referred to in the science fiction television series
First Wave was a Canadian TV Show that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel [i] ...
, and was the employer of the hero of the short-lived television series,
Strange World.
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