Because a riot is just what you want in the middle of an outbreak of a level 4 pathogen.
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I'll see your riot and raise a NIH stupidity.
NIH to UWM, "Say, we've been reviewing our records and see that you didn't have the funds for a Level-4 lab to study Ebola. We can't help fund it but what do you say we reduce precautionary requirements to, oh what the heck, let's say Level-2 and you're good to go."
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MADISON, WIS. — A University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is studying a noninfectious strain of the Ebola virus.
The university's biosafety manager Rebecca Moritz says Yoshihiro Kawaoka is testing potential drug therapies for the virus. Moritz says not a lot is known about the virus.
The State Journal reports Kawaoka is doing the research if labs that are classified with biosafety levels of two and three, which require some precautions.
The National Institutes of Health in 2006 told Kawaoka his Ebola research needed to be done in a level four lab, the highest level. Since the university didn't have such a lab, Kawaoka stopped his research. In 2010, the NIH reversed its decision and said the work could be done in a level two lab.
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It’s almost like they WANT it to get out in the wild in this country.
Pixie (poster)
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:04 am Post
subject: A potential timeline to watch:
Nigeria: Weekend of August 23: Evidence of tertiary cases comes to light as a result of odd happenings at hospitals in Nigeria.
Liberia: September 1 - Labor Day weekend: Evidence of secondary cases related to the dispersal of patients and the to looting of mattresses, etc., from the isolation center in West Point, Monrovia.
Mid-September Evidence of tertiary cases in West Point, Monrovia.
Once cases are reported from around Nigeria (because the lid cannot be kept on media reports about them any longer), the wealthy and expats will begin to leave Nigeria in earnest, some of them taking the virus with them.
I worry about the MCF and other facilities becoming overwhelmed, at some point in all this, to the point that HQ makes the decision to pull its people out due to safety concerns.
This virus will act the same way as it has acted so far, wherever it touches down in a clinic or hospital. In Nigeria medical workers have been reassured that the virus has been effectively contained in Lagos. It won't take much to set off other clusters in medical personnel who believe those reassurances.
In Liberia and Sierra Leone, medical facilities still do not have sufficient protective equipment for health care workers. If the New Ebola virus gets a foothold in West Point, there simply will not be enough workers or gloves. New Ebola was never supposed to get into a place like West Point, was never supposed to be able to gain a foothold in such a messy urban setting. It wasn't supposed to be possible, it wasn't supposed to happen.
That's the thing about this virus. Quite a lot is happening with New Ebola that was never supposed to happen. That should prove cautionary.