When the Pentagon needs to handle the deadliest biowarfare threats, it turns to the labs of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Maryland. It's the only place in the American military complex equipped to handle the worst of the worst diseases -- those that have no cure and are transmissible by air. Which makes it extremely unnerving, that the place had to suspend biodefense research on Friday, "after discovering apparent problems with the system of accounting for high-risk microbes and biomaterials."
[From Top Army Biowar Lab Suspends Research After Toxin-Tracking Scare (Updated Again) | Danger Room from Wired.com]
2.10.2009
I don't know about you, Bunky, but I'm getting back under the bed
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