Has any reporting been done on the situations

[China_cat]

at the Level 3 labs in the hurricane area? NO had at least one doing research on anthrax and genetically engineered mousepox. Tulane had 2, Covington had a very large HIV lab, complete with infected monkeys.

How much of this stuff is swirling around in the water there?

[HEAVYHEART]

1. I haven't heard any reporting

but I'm kicking this in case someone knows!!

[China_cat]

2. This is what came through on the healthfraud list

and, as bad as everything else is, this is scary to the max.

Quoting from a post.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN AND AROUND NEW ORLEANS

The blog for The Memory Hole

September 8, 2005



http://thememoryblog.org/archives/000588.html



Summary: At the very least, there are two Level-3 biolabs in New Orleans and a cluster of three in nearby Covington. They have been working with anthrax, mousepox, HIV, plague, etc. There are surely other labs in the city.
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There are many Level 3 Biolabs in New Orleans, almost every major hospital would have some form of Level 3 protection. See
http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/symp5/jyrtext.htm for the requirements. In
addition the State Epidemiological Lab, several commercial labs, and several corporate labs located in the metro area.

However, I am sure that labs at Tulane, LSU, the State Lab, and several others totally lost power from the emergency generators, therefore, freezers would have defrosted, HEPA filters in laminar flow hoods would not have been decontaminated and in general all sorts of other problems would have occurred. I don't know of any strains of anything that are exposed at a level low enough to have been flooded themselves. Some strains may have been relocated to Oschner, if they happened to think about it in the general chaos.

The primate facilities at Covington, I suspect don't present much of a
hazard. The animals were housed outside because they represented little human hazard - with the possible single exception of armadillos, used in work on Hanson's Disease.



Typically, the situation is that where zoonotics get into the human
populations is in a place like Africa, where there is not only a close
physical relationship, but is also the reservoir for many of the emerging diseases.