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U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., toured Fort Detricka s Area B on Monday. He is shown here being briefed by Robert Craig, Fort Detrick chief, environmental management office.

A briefing and tour of efforts to clean up contaminated landfill sites was held.

Since 1946, a whole lot of nastiness has been buried under ground in the 14 acres that make up Fort Detrick's Area B. Primarily it's been heavy solvents but barrels of military grade chemical waste were also found in this one time test area.

I'm taking a few inches in this week's column to say goodbye. This will be my last Military Intelligence column for The Frederick News-Post, and one of my last pieces to appear in the paper overall.

From Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean to Vanuatu in the Western Pacific, from the sweltering heat of Ethiopa's deserts to the storm-tossed island of Guernsey in the North Sea, the H1NI "swine flu" virus continues to spread, long ago leaving behind any hpe that will not be with us for years, decades and even centuries to come.

Viruses are spreading faster than ever - it took the Swine Flu less than a month to infect over 1,800 people in 72 countries.

I hope you will join us at Baker Park this Saturday for the Twilight Tattoo performance by the Old Guard and the Army Fife and Drum Corps.

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee More than 9200 unlisted vials of dangerous pathogens and toxins have turned up in an inventory of biological materials at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

A U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum security guard who was forced to fire last Wednesday at a white supremacist says he intends to return to his job.

Roughly 75 percent of military service members rent their homes. Under a law signed by President Barack Obama last month, those service members now have additional protections if the home they're renting goes into foreclosure.

USAMRIID finds more than 9,200 unrecorded disease samples [Frederick, MD] "An inventory completed last month showed researchers at Fort Detrick had more than 9,200 more vials of disease samples than they had on record.

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A sign at the Veterans Gate at Fort Detrick Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases... A sign at the Veterans Gate at Fort Detrick Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is shown in this August 2008 file photo in Frederick, Md.

Officials of an Army biodefense lab in Frederick say an inventory of deadly germs and toxins found more than 9,200 vials of material that had been unaccounted for in laboratory records.

The Army says workers at a military biodefense laboratory in Frederick have finished an inventory of dangerous germs and toxins.

Five Baltimore companies are among 12 across the state receiving $600,000 in grant money from the Maryland Technology Development Corp.

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. , known as Tedco, has awarded a total of $599,934 to help fund 12 local technology companies.

Maj. Gen. James Gilman took command of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command from Col.

A Defense Science Board report on military biolab safety says insider threats are the labs' biggest security problem.

Grove Resource Solutions Inc. has received a $20 million contract with USAMMA at Fort Detrick.