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Everyone just bathe in Ivomac-Pour-On every day and you'll have nothing to worry about (< hick joke from hick school graduate sd)
Study has been released. They should just put the lab in a big bubble. And then over that bubble put another, larger bubble.QuoteNew report highlights risk of Kansas biodefense labThe federal government has seriously underestimated the risk that a new federal lab in Manhattan, Kan., could accidentally release dangerous pathogens like foot-and-mouth disease, according to a scientific assessment released this morning.The report, conducted by the National Research Council, predicts that there is a better than 70 percent chance of an accidental release of a contagious animal disease within 50 years at the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility planned for Manhattan.In addition, it found “several major shortcomings” in an early U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assessment.The federal government selected Kansas to host the $650 million lab, which will study foreign animal diseases and replace an aging lab on Plum Island, N.Y.Some of the diseases can infect humans. Others pose threats to the nation’s agricultural economy. Congress voted to withhold construction funds for the project until concerns about the lab’s safety were studied.Based on today’s report, those concerns are far from addressed.“Building a facility that is capable of large animal work on a scale greater than other high-containment laboratories presents new and unknown risks that could not be accounted for in the DHS risk assessment because of a lack of data and experience,” said Ronald Atlas, chair of the committee that wrote today’s report.Atlas is a professor of biology and public health and co-director of the Center for Health Preparedness at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.The report, which was requested by Congress, faulted the earlier Homeland Security study for failing to grasp the risk of an accidental leak of foot-and-mouth disease, or how much damage such a leak could create. The report notes that “roughly 9.5 percent of the U.S. cattle inventory lies within a 200-mile radius of the facility. Given that the disease is highly contagious and that the chance of its escape is not zero, rigorous and robust regional and national mitigation strategies that address an extensive outbreak … are needed before the facility opens.”The earlier Homeland Security report estimated the economic losses from a possible foot-and-mouth outbreak at $9 billion to $50 billion, but today’s report says the actual amount could be “significantly higher.”
New report highlights risk of Kansas biodefense labThe federal government has seriously underestimated the risk that a new federal lab in Manhattan, Kan., could accidentally release dangerous pathogens like foot-and-mouth disease, according to a scientific assessment released this morning.The report, conducted by the National Research Council, predicts that there is a better than 70 percent chance of an accidental release of a contagious animal disease within 50 years at the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility planned for Manhattan.In addition, it found “several major shortcomings” in an early U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assessment.The federal government selected Kansas to host the $650 million lab, which will study foreign animal diseases and replace an aging lab on Plum Island, N.Y.Some of the diseases can infect humans. Others pose threats to the nation’s agricultural economy. Congress voted to withhold construction funds for the project until concerns about the lab’s safety were studied.Based on today’s report, those concerns are far from addressed.“Building a facility that is capable of large animal work on a scale greater than other high-containment laboratories presents new and unknown risks that could not be accounted for in the DHS risk assessment because of a lack of data and experience,” said Ronald Atlas, chair of the committee that wrote today’s report.Atlas is a professor of biology and public health and co-director of the Center for Health Preparedness at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.The report, which was requested by Congress, faulted the earlier Homeland Security study for failing to grasp the risk of an accidental leak of foot-and-mouth disease, or how much damage such a leak could create. The report notes that “roughly 9.5 percent of the U.S. cattle inventory lies within a 200-mile radius of the facility. Given that the disease is highly contagious and that the chance of its escape is not zero, rigorous and robust regional and national mitigation strategies that address an extensive outbreak … are needed before the facility opens.”The earlier Homeland Security report estimated the economic losses from a possible foot-and-mouth outbreak at $9 billion to $50 billion, but today’s report says the actual amount could be “significantly higher.”
manhattan republicans rejoice
The timing of this report coming just 2 weeks following the CTR beatdown is very suspicious.
It's a good thing the CDC was built in a sparsely populated area too!
Most of the population of the country lives next to really scary dangerous stuff . . . You can write a report to conjure every possible scenario under the flying Spaghetti Monster sun.
