SAN ANTONIO - A new research lab for bioterrorism opened Monday at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The $10.6 million Margaret Batts Tobin Laboratory Building will provide a 22,000-square-foot facility to study such diseases as anthrax, tularemia, cholera, lyme disease, desert valley fever and other parasitic and fungal diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified these diseases as potential bioterrorism agents. Fifteen university researchers make up the newly established South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Earlier this year, the researchers were awarded $9 million in federal funding for bioterrorism research conducted in a smaller lab on campus.
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How in the world is lyme considered a bio-terrorism disease?? Is the government afraid that enemy nations are going to throw ticks on soldiers?
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You need to read up about Bioweapons and genetically altered strains. This has been happening since WW11.
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We likely can look forward to some nasty engineered virus or bacteria escaping this facility some time in the future. They can't even keep lab rats contained.
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Vermont_Lymie Best book to get that sheds light on the biochemical warfare is lab257 (Michael Carroll wrote it) about the government using German scientists that operated through WWII. they paid them to help the USA understand what testing and biochemical agents were used against our forces..
I could not read past the 3rd or 4th chapter I became disgusted with the government and refused to knwo any more I am now looking for my mother to give me the book back so I can finish what i started I hate not being informed..
but the first 3 or 4 chapters of it gives a rather vivid impression of what has been happening to unsuspecting Americans.
Any library should have a copy of it or a book store can order it .. if they dont have it in stock I got mine in 2002, paid 20.00 and waited about 2 weeks ..
Hope this helps.. LindaD
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