Virus study tracks hantavirus deaths at Fort Detrick lab
Researchers at Fort Detrick and the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, with CDC input, study a new hantavirus linked to voles and deer mice. Since May the virus has killed 26 people, with outbreaks centered in the Four Corners region. Grants fund work toward treatments and a vaccine as scientists map animal carriers and human infection pathways.
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Kaspin Asive Soutlaw
United States
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Fort Detrick
Centers For Disease Co
Peter Jahring
Fort Detrick Labs
Jahrling
Frederick County
Central Nervous System Studies
D. Carleton Gajdusek
Richard Yanagihara
Bob Howard
CDC
Centers For Disease Control
U.S. Army
Governor backs changes to Maryland death penalty laws
Gov. William Donald Schaefer supports most recommendations from a capital punishment analysis. The report outlines eight bills, including switching execution method to lethal injection, speeding court opinions, and tightening post conviction timelines. It notes Maryland spends 300,000 to 400,000 per death penalty case and about 12 million since 1978 with no executions since 1961.
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Annapolis
William Donald Schaefer
Maryland
Court of Appeals
Two Seriously Injured in Separate Frederick County Accidents
Two area residents were seriously injured in separate Thursday accidents in Frederick County. Kathleen M. Greenburg, 40, of Frederick, was listed in serious condition after her 1988 Mercury overturned on I-70 near South Street. She was flown to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda with severe head injuries. David J. Brodka, 27, of Frederick, was seriously injured in a head-on collision at Md. 8 and English Muffin Way when his 1987 Dodge Dakota was struck by a garbage truck and he was flown to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown with extensive head and chest injuries.
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Frederick County
Kathleen M. Greenburg
Walter Land Road
Frederick
Bethesda
Ms. Greenburg
South Street
Absett van Pearl
Robert Draskovic
United Fire Company
David J. Brodka
Old Kiln Road
Brodka
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Terry H. Selby
Thomasville
Rick Bachtell
Selby S Wack
Antiony Buryad
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Thurmont Plans $50 Christmas Bonus for Town Employees
The Thurmont town council voted to award a $50 Christmas bonus to all town employees at Wednesday’s monthly meeting. Town administrator Richard May stated the decision and noted a citizen suggestion to allow absentee ballots in emergencies, though current law requires pickup seven days before an election.
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Thurmont
Richard May
May
Gas station clerk foils armed robbery in Germantown
A clerk in a Plexiglas booth at Exxon on Germantown Road called 911 during an attempted robbery just before 1 a.m. Two Black men in their late 20s wearing caps and black jackets fled without money after the clerk refused to hand over cash. Suspects described by police as muscular and of medium build with brown eyes and black hair.
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Germantown
Montgomery County
Germantown Road
Crennere Thenlavad
Bataan
Motorola
FCC
Frederick
Gettysburg
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Susan C.nicol
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R Adams Cowley Trauma Center
Baltimore
Barry Stonestreet
O’conner
Kathleen
Zachary
Jacob W. Gassaway
Mount Airy
Kelly Hahn
Athesda
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Wayside
Zenith
MTS
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Ecelyer
Mowtor
Clear Stil & Stow Moton MT
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Guttbrand
Ill
Tvevideo
Patrick SL
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Cirmeed Sundeys
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Cellular
Cellular One
Washington, D.C
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Mporta
Uniden Mobile
Uniden Transportaote
Tesa
Catoctin Electronics, Inc
Orchard Village
Tippan Drive
Orchard Vi
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