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The Army says a Fort Detrick biodefense worker has been hospitalized for treatment of a disease she may have contracted in a laboratory.

Caree Vander Linden of the U.S. Army Institute of Infectious Diseases said Wednesday that the woman was admitted Monday to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to receive antibiotics intravenously.

Tests have confirmed that the woman has tularemia, a respiratory illness that can cause life-threatening pneumonia. The Army announced the case Friday, 11 days after she first sought help.