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Bioweapons Lab Breakdown
« on: 2007-08-01 17:49:16 » |
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http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/07/the-centers-for.html
Bioweapons Lab Breakdown; Infected Workers Not Cleared for Duty
31 July 2007, 23:31:53 | Noah Shachtman
Remember those Texas A&M bioweapons workers who got infected with infectious agents? It turns out, one of 'em "didn't have federal approval" to do so, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Other high-level experiments were conducted in a lab not authorized for them, the records show.
The revelations are the latest in a mounting scientific scandal at A&M, stemming from the university's failure to report to the federal government one illness and several other cases of workers being exposed to "select agents." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has so far suspended the federally funded biodefense program's prize research and jeopardized its future.
A&M has received the bulk of the scrutiny; 19 federal investigators left College Station on Thursday, after four days examining a Brucella infection and several Q-fever exposures in campus labs. But it's not the only Texas university with biological security breaches...
Texas schools reported dozens of needle pricks, splashes, inhalations and exposure to other deadly, highly monitored diseases over the last several years – everything from tuberculosis to HIV.
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