NIH Halts Work at High-Level Infectious Disease Laboratory

Officials said there have been multiple safety violations at the lab at Fort Detrick.

Personnel work inside the biosafety level 4 lab at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick on Sept. 26, 2002. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. health officials have shut down work at a laboratory in Maryland that focuses on high-risk infectious diseases.

Health officials halted work at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, also known as IRF-Frederick, after multiple safety violations, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official told The Epoch Times in an email on May 5.