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Plague and Anthrax Missing — Just A Clerical Error?

Posted By: 'Okie' | 4:43 pm — 4/25/2006 | Comments Off See comments below:

Say what???

Missing bioterror substances have officials guessing

NEWARK, N.J. – In the past year, two New Jersey laboratories have been unable to account for plague-infested mice and vials of deadly anthrax spores, and top state officials are scrambling to devise better ways to safeguard deadly material.

In both cases, authorities say they think the items in question weren’t actually lost, but were simply unaccounted for due to clerical errors.

They can’t say for sure – and that has a Rutgers microbiologist predicting more trouble if such substances aren’t kept at a central location.

“The fact that they don’t know the answer means they’re not running a properly secured facility,” professor Richard Ebright said of both cases. (…)
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Ebright said the U.S. should store all its hazardous bio-agents at a single, secure location rather than having them scattered across the country.

“If an adversary of the United States, such as al-Qaida, wanted to obtain this material, the most effective, simple procedure to do so is to plant a person in one of those numerous institutions that the administration has put in place working with this material,” he said. “Because the number of those institutions has increased and because it happened without an increase in effective security, the risk to the United States has dramatically increased.”

Ya think?!!! Geez! (db)

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