New Lab Security Report May Signal Need for Pause -- Yahoo News/APWASHINGTON – Another frightening new government report is heightening fears about the safety of U.S. biodefense laboratories that study some of the world's deadliest germs. The latest worry: Intruders could easily break into two of the labs due to lax security.
Now some lawmakers and members of a new citizen coalition are asking whether it's time for a timeout in the expansion of the Bush administration's biowarfare defense program.
The Bush administration decided after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that the nation needed to develop cures, drug treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tests to combat germs that could be used in a terrorist attack or accidentally released.
And, while U.S. officials say there are no known incidents where outsiders attacked anyone with germs from a U.S. lab, the FBI concluded last summer that a microbiologist at the Army's lab in Ft. Detrick, Md. was responsible for anthrax attacks in 2001.
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My Comment: This could be a nightmare unleashed .... but everyone is asleep at the wheel.
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