# Fort Detrick, Lab leak?

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Podcast: [Dr. John Campbell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784)
Published: 2026-09-05T14:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

White House, Lab leak publication https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ Top secret US research lab studying SARS-CoV-2 shut amid safety concerns, May 2025 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/us-research-lab-studying-sars-cov-2-shut-amid-safety-fears/?WT.mc_id=e_DM575996&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_GHS_New_Fri&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_GHS_New_Fri20250502&utm_campaign=DM575996 The Integrated Research Facility (IRL) in Fort Detrick, Maryland Biosafety-level-4 (BSL4) High security lab at Fort Detrick, linked by Chinese propagandists to the outbreak of Covid-19 - without evidence US research facility that studies Sars-CoV-2, Ebola, Lassa fever, Marburg and Eastern equine encephalitis (high consequence diseases) Has been shut down by the Trump administration amid safety concerns. NIH has implemented a research pause – a safety stand-down Told by email to stop all experimental work by 5pm on April 29 Identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture China released a paper “Substantial evidence suggested the Covid-19 might have emerged in the United States earlier than its officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in China,” Prof Stuart Neil, head of infectious diseases at King’s College London. “The sustained attacks on collaborative US biomedical science and public health are already destroying disease surveillance systems and game-changing clinical trials that will result in avoidable deaths and morbidities for years to come in some of the poorest countries,” This is wilful vandalism of research and treatment programmes that have taken years to establish – things that you could legitimately say made America great…

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