Concerns over Bio-Labs in Texas flooding!
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Topic: Concerns over Bio-Labs in Texas flooding!
Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Subject: Concerns over Bio-Labs in Texas flooding!
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 11:05am
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/concern-over-bio-lab-caught-in-texas-storm_us_59a68bd1e4b05fa16286be5f" rel="nofollow - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/concern-over-bio-lab-caught-in-texas-storm_us_59a68bd1e4b05fa16286be5f
Concern is rising for the safety of a biological lab containing deadly diseases on Galveston island, which has been hit by the massive storm devastating southeast Texas. The Galveston National Laboratory on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch contains samples of hundreds of viruses, insects and microbes, which could spread extreme danger if they were to escape. There are several Bio-safety Level 4 labs at Galveston. BSL-4 is the highest level precaution taken for work with agents that can be transmitted through the air and cause fatal diseases in humans for which there are no known cures. ------------- CRS, DrPH |
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Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 12:01pm
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What bright spark built them in such a low lying area? ------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving. |
Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 6:19pm
Yeah, pretty amazing, isn't it? These BSL4 facilities frighten me, which is why I signed onto the Cambridge
Working Group and signed their Consensus Statement on the Creation of Potential Pandemic Pathogens. The Mad Dr. Kawaoka is engineering advanced avian influenza viruses at this lab in Madison, WI which is within striking distance of Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis-St.Paul. The drivers to build these dangerous labs are the prestige-seeking universities and rent-seeking faculty with outstretched hands, looking for research dollars. There was a rush to build these things post-9/11 but I think we went way overboard. This article is about a BSL-3 and BSL-4 complex in Boston: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/infectious-disease-lab-irks-bostonians/story?id=18134903" rel="nofollow - http://abcnews.go.com/Health/infectious-disease-lab-irks-bostonians/story?id=18134903 ------------- CRS, DrPH |
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