All research at a Fort Detrick laboratory that handles high-level disease-causing material, such as Ebola, is on hold indefinitely after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the organization failed to meet biosafety standards.
No infectious pathogens, or disease-causing material, have been found outside authorized areas at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
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Trump will fix it.
This kind of thing is a breakdown on so many levels from the lab techs to upper management who should be inspecting and overseeing all posts. People in these positions that are not responsible with such virulent material as Ebola should be let go.
Oh man this certainly wasn't because we are promoting based on sex and race quota. No siree.
Just regular old incompetence. No one could have seen this coming.
That commander sure looks like a white man to me. But yeah, let’s blame women and minorities. It’s the American way.
Col. Cox only got this position a few weeks ago. But the last two commanders were also white males.
What a repugnant thing to imply. As though in a country of 330 million there aren’t any competent people that aren’t white men. Also, your comment is ignorant. You don’t know the circumstances of why research was halted or who will be found responsible. Everyone would be better off if you had kept your ugly opinion to yourself.
Shame on you. Meritocracy is not a dirty word.
.03 - Paid vacation or administrative make-work?
You talking to me??
glenkrc is the commenter who unsuccessfully attempted to dox me years ago. I’ve seen him/her assume he knew the meat-space identity of other commenters from time to time, at least one of whom (in addition to me) told him he/she was mistaken. For whatever reason, glenkrc never admits her/his error. In my case, he/she may have caused harm to the professional reputation of an innocent bystander but that didn’t seem to be of any concern to him/her, assuming he/she was truthful.
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