Posted on 03/02/2015 9:21:35 PM PST by Smokin' Joe
U.S. officials in Louisiana are investigating how a dangerous and often deadly bacteria got out of a high-security laboratory at a research facility, USA Today reported on Sunday.
Authorities told the newspaper there was no risk to the public, though the extent of the contamination remains unknown after the safety breach at the Tulane National Primate Research Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
This is the way “The Stand” started ....
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
(not that there aren't deadly Nigerians)
Please let us know if you die.
I hate that when that happens.
“Authorities told the newspaper there was no risk to the public, though the extent of the contamination remains unknown”
The predictable typical idiotic statement from “authorities” - it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetically stupid. Sure am glad these morons are in charge!
How could this happen? It is quite simple. The Feds cannot do anything right as there is no accountability. To put it in the vernacular, nobody cares and nobody gives a damn.
You’re a no-risk denier Tom...
No not you! I meant Obama.
Sorry.
Pinging Kart and Marcella!
reminds me of the beginning of the movie Resident Evil. Must be why the govt was preping fora zombie outbreak.
Right- the Nigerians working at my sister’s hospital [and she says they are excellent nurses] are spitting nails over all the illegals allowed to come in- they had to get here the legal way through all kinds of hoops.
It looks like there’s a complex of about ten buildings surrounding that center.
Are they all “primate research” or what else is there at that location?
No problem, Ray. You are right, though, the magic fellow seems to be good at diverting attention from things he doesn’t want us to see, even as they are done in plain sight. I just wish our Congress had meant their vows to uphold the US Constitution enough to put the brakes on this dictatorship.
Strangely enough, this bacteria kills the body but leaves the brain intact and the victim hungry for living human flesh.
It’s not isolated it is right across the road from a school.
Hopefully not THIS crow:
Authorities told the newspaper there was no risk to the public, though the extent of the contamination remains unknown....
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My Cognitive Dissonance Meter is beeping big time....
I agree, there is not much risk to human population from this incident, since acquiring an infection with this bug requires direct contact with a source of infection.
The fact that it can live in the soil makes it worrisome. How is the soil going to be decontaminated? What is the risk that some wild rodent or other animal will encounter the contaminated soil and get the disease, spreading the bacteria further within the environment and among wildlife? If the bacterium can become established in the area, it can be a sporadic risk to humans—much like many other diseases lurking out there in the wild are.
Since all of the monkeys that became sick were exposed (apparently) at the facility’s veterinary hospital, I wonder how the hospital became contaminated. If those BSL3 labs practice the procedures that I have seen used in other BSL3 labs, that should not have happened. Someone was sloppy with protocol. I wonder what the security videos show?
As always, thanks for the ping!
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