The suspension order was apparently issued to the Fort Detrick facility due to problems in the new waste water decontamination system that were reported by a CDC inspection.
The US Army Medical Command facility known as Fort Detrick, which used to be the center of the now-defunct US biological weapons program, has been stripped of its license to conduct research of deadly pathogens such as Ebola, smallpox and anthrax, at the behest of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Independent reports.