CNN/AP: World's deadliest germs moving to Boston

[DeepModem Mom]

World's deadliest germs moving to Boston
Friday, February 3, 2006


BOSTON (AP) -- Boston University won final federal approval Thursday for a controversial plan to build a research laboratory in the city's South End that would handle some of the world's most dangerous and exotic germs.

The decision by the National Institutes of Health secures $128 million in federal funding for the lab, which will be part of a national group of facilities that will study infectious diseases such as ebola and the West Nile virus.

University officials said the lab will be safe and will provide needed research into contagious illnesses and the risk they might pose in the hands of bioterrorists.

But opponents have criticized the decision to build the lab in a densely populated urban neighborhood.

The controversy escalated in 2004, when three workers at another BU lab became sick after they were exposed to a highly infectious strain of tularemia, or rabbit fever. They recovered....


http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/02/03/bioterrorism.lab.ap/index.html

[leesa]

1. Please Be Afraid At All Times. Thank You.

The MSM doing their part in terrorizing America for the fascists.

[951-Riverside]

2. Why can't it move to washington next to the white house

along with these nuclear plants, nuclear waste, etc?

[BlueManDude]

3. Better idea - Crawford.

[bananas]

4. tularemia was detected at the DC protest

Maybe that's where it came from?

"The controversy escalated in 2004, when three workers at another BU lab became sick after they were exposed to a highly infectious strain of tularemia, or rabbit fever. They recovered...."

[Laughing Mirror]

6. of course, or a lab like it

But we'll never know how many of the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were affected. It was a story that quickly got swept under the carpet. People just couldn't believe their government would do this to them. Some preferred to imagine a lot of infected wild rabbits running amok on the Mall spreading their pernicious germs.

[preciousdove]

5. How many of these do we need? n/t