![]() ![]() ![]() Bloom's conservation efforts - securing water for fish and coping with fish-killing whirling disease - have been "amazing" and had "an enormous impact on fish habitat" in the state, according to a former director of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Now 67, he's spent more than two decades as a voluntary leader of Trout Unlimited, working locally and nationally, lobbying the Montana Legislature, and organizing fund-raisers and so on. Away from the lab, he's an avid fly fisherman and conservationist his license plate says DRTROUT. He focused on tick-borne diseases to begin with, and then beginning in 2002, he oversaw the construction of the Level 4 lab. ![]() ![]() Today, the campus is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases network, and it includes a "Biosafety Level 4" lab, where researchers wearing "positive-pressure suits" work with the planet's most dangerous diseases, some of which could be exploited by bioterrorists.īloom, who holds a medical degree from Washington University, has worked here for more than 40 years. The effort began more than a hundred years ago, when a few tent-based researchers started studying a disease that killed loggers they discovered tick-borne Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Nearly 500 workers in dozens of lab buildings are dedicated to studying "emerging infectious diseases" like the Ebola virus (from Africa), Lassa fever (caused by another African virus) and chronic wasting disease. In his day job, Marshall Bloom is the associate director for scientific management at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a cutting-edge federal research campus in an unlikely place: Hamilton, Mont., a town of about 4,500 in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley. ![]()
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