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Research attachment within the United States National Institutes of Health This is charged with studying Ebola Other fatal infectious diseases are instructed by the Trump administration The Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) To stop research activities.

According to an e -mail that WIRED, the integrated research facility in Frederick, Maryland was told to stop all experimental works by April 29 at 5 pm. This facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Districk. It is conducting research on treating and preventing infectious diseases that are considered “great consequences” – those that pose great risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors.

The email, which Michael Holbroc, Assistant Director for Higher Containing at the Integrated Research Establishment, says the laboratory ends studies on Lhasa fever, SARS -Coffee -2, and encephalitis in Eastern horses, or EEE, which is a rare but deadly deadly disease that was reported in several states in the northern United States. “We collect many samples as it is reasonable to ensure the value of these studies,” he says in the email. “We were not asked to kill any animals, so these animals will continue to be managed.” Holbrook did not respond to a WIRED investigation.

E-mail says that the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Security were from freezing freezing in BSL-4 laboratories, where those with the highest level of vital safety used to study very dangerous microbes. There are only about ten BSL-4 laboratories in North America. These laboratories work with viruses that cause Ebola, Lhasa fever, and Mborg, types of hemorrhagic fever. Integrated research facility is one of the few places in the world capable of performing medical imaging on animals with BSL-4 factors.

“The sacrifice of tremendous research,” says Gigi Kwick Gunfal, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Health Security Center. “If things are unused for a period of time, it will cost more money to prepare for use again.”

The director of the facility, Kony North, was also placed on an administrative leave, according to the email. Previously, Schmaljoh’s worked as a major research scientist at the American Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. It has more than 200 research publications and its work has led to many clinical trials for the first delicate vaccines. North did not respond to the investigation of WIRED.

In a statement via e -mail submitted to WIRED, Bradley Moss, Director of Communications, confirmed to the Research Services Office at the National Institutes of Health, stopping research activity. “The National Health Institutes carried out a temporary stop-due to the integrated research facility in Fort Ditrick.

Moss did not clarify the nature of the employee issues, and he said he did not know the period in which the research pause will continue. Employees did not receive the date of an expected reopening.

The research stop is the latest disruption of federal science agencies after the Minister of National Health Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior. He announced at the end of March 10,000 people throughout the wide Federal Health Agency will lose their jobs, including those in the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The demobilization of the collective workers is part of the restructuring plan implemented by President Donald Trump, the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doge).