Missing bioterror substances at New Jersey laboratories have officials gue

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/news/science/26-04-2006/79525-laboratories-0

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 were not actually lost, but were simply unaccounted for due to clerical errors.

They cannot say for sure and that has a Rutgers University microbiologist predicting more trouble if such substances are not kept at a central location secured by the federal government.

"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. "The odds are that it was an accounting error, but it is very possible that one of the persons with access to the lab has removed that material."

Last week, state health officials said they could not account for two vials of anthrax bacteria once thought to have been stored at a government laboratory in Trenton. In September, a Newark health research lab lost track of three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague.
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OOPS lost alittle Anthrax and Bubonic plague... New Jersey especially poor security when you think thats where the

Samples of anthrax have been stored at the Trenton lab since shortly after the October 2001 anthrax mailings that went through a Hamilton, New Jersey, post office, killing four people across the country and sickening 17

This lab is incompetent!!!

[valerief]

1. Condi is keeping them in her shoe boxes for a special occasion.

You know, when the poll numbers for * and the Creep Veep are the same. "Must have distraction. Must have distraction."

[rodeodance]

2. interesting--Pravda keeping track of us.

[WhiteTara]

3. we are so much safer now

Aren't we glad we have Homeland Security?

[Mnemosyne]

4. I remember the original story around the time of Katrina. 3 mice

from 3 separate cages. Can't find the bookmark, but I distinctly remember it.

Very strange indeed.

[Pavulon]

5. Missing bioterror substances have officials guessing

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-04252006-646909.html

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


***When I did engineering at State I took Chemistry. The lab people accounted for chemicals. Even industrial chemicals that can be used in metal work. Why, they could be used to make meth.

How the HELL can they lose biologics from a secure lab?

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. I'll bet all the generals were really glad to see him.

They all like him so much.

I wonder if anyone even met the plane?

[Julius Civitatus]

7. This reminds me: the anthrax mailer is still free

Never caught, never prosecuted. And the trail ran cold, and never furtehr followed.

For shame!

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I just read that, too.

I really don't think we are one bit safer now than we were before we spent billions and billions.