In 1949, several staffers at Camp Detrick contracted severe illnesses.

Evidence

In 1948, five staffers at Detrick got sick with rabbit fever, and fifteen came down with brucellosis. In 1949, five more got rabbit fever. Ten got brucellosis. A sewage-plant decontaminationist got cutaneous anthrax. Nobody died, but some were very sick. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 873

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• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 873