RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
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Summary
The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been told to halt its experimental research into Ebola and other infectious diseases at its Integrated Research Facility in Maryland.
The facility, based at Fort Detrick, was told to stop all experimental work by 29 April.
It is believed the Department of Health and Human Services has made the decision following what it called “personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture”.
Only essential staff will be permitted to access the site.
It is another body blow to medical research in the US after tens of thousands of lay-offs at government research centres were announced last month.
The cuts are part of President Trump’s wider efforts to downsize the Department of Human and Health Services.
