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A new CDC lab will cost up to $480 million:
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it needs to replace its aging high containment lab, which handles some of the world's most dangerous contagions.
The project would cost $350 million to build. But over three years, the total budget could reach $480 million, also funding campus infrastructure improvements, such as extending utility tunnels to support the new lab. The CDC is in the early stages of asking Congress for the funds.
In its current "high containment lab" (HCL), the CDC develops and performs diagnostic tests for the deadliest disease threats, including emerging influenza viruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Lassa fever.
[...] Without investment, the CDC's current lab will be left with only a fraction of its current research space and the agency will fall behind in protecting, defending and responding to infectious disease threats. In the next few years, it faces a risk of an unplanned and potentially catastrophic shutdown.
Meanwhile, a CDC employee has been missing since he called in sick from work.
Also at Time.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 26 2018, @05:54PM (1 child)
Jessica Fletcher was really probably the most diabolical and beguiling villainous mastermind ever portrayed in a movie or TV show. Not only did she murder, premeditatively and in cold blood, countless people in her small hometown in Maine (making it per-capita by far the murder capital of the world), she even managed to brainwash other people into confessing to these crimes! It's quite possible she even somehow managed to coerce many of these people in committing the murderous act themselves. And all of this murder was done quite likely just so that she could have more stories to write about for her highly-profitable line of books. Worse, she got away with these heinous crimes for decades! I really can't think of any other characters who come close to approaching this level of sheer evil.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday February 26 2018, @06:39PM
I'd say that Eleanor Iselin [wikipedia.org] was arguably just as evil, and unquestionably at least twenty years [gettyimages.com] hotter.
I'm not really sure why I would equate a senator's wife and a retired schoolteacher turned murder mystery writer, but somehow it just seems to work for me.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr