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Biodefense Labs, Bad for Our Health | Danger Room | Wired.com

Biodefense Labs, Bad for Our Health

* By Noah Shachtman Email Author
* August 3, 2008

"In the meantime, we’ve seen biolab workers infected in Texas and Boston; disease-ridden mice escaped (twice), and a deadly flu strain accidentally shipped all over the country.

Today, The New York Times echoes what we’ve been saying. All it took was the suicide of Army biodefense scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins, a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. "Has the unprecedented boom in biodefense research made the country less secure by multiplying the places and people with access to dangerous germs?" the paper of record asks."