Fort Detrick USDA unit a quiet but important part of global food security
On opposite ends of Fort Detrick, overshadowed by the mammoth infectious disease laboratories that sit in between, are two sets of greenhouses belonging to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The diseases studied inside aren't as infamous as the anthrax and Ebola tested elsewhere at Fort Detrick, but the USDA research in the greenhouses saves plants vital to the farming, lumber and tourism industries.
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