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CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears Of Release Into Wastewater

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @07:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-your-water? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus.

"Research is currently on hold," the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md., said in a statement on Friday. The shutdown is likely to last months, Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman, said in an interview.

The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a "cease and desist order" last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have "sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater" from its highest-security labs.

[...] The suspended research involves certain toxins, along with germs called select agents, which the government has determined have "the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health or to animal or plant products." There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @08:23AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @08:23AM (#877816)

    I feel I am coming down with lime disease.Can't stand limes, even if you put them in the coconut.

    You put the lime in the coconut. [google.com] And then you feel better. Sucks to be a millennial, yes?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday August 09 2019, @02:08PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday August 09 2019, @02:08PM (#877904) Journal

    Don't worry.
    Be happy.

    --
    --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @03:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @03:24PM (#877933)

    Maybe put the lime in an avocado, then spread it on your toast.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 09 2019, @04:20PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 09 2019, @04:20PM (#877959) Journal

      Actually, it sounds more like another shampoo. Or, facial wash. Or, maybe a hair conditioner. Looking at labels on the wife's beauty products can make you feel hungry. Lime and avacado? Maybe it opens your pores or something?

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 09 2019, @05:50PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 09 2019, @05:50PM (#877982) Journal

    You put the lime in the coconut. [google.com] And then you feel better. Sucks to be a millennial, yes?

    Why, because they missed out on such a musical masterpiece? How can they possibly survive without 'Nilsson Schmilsson,' such a travesty!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @11:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @11:00PM (#878056)

    Hey, mister tally-man, tally my banana!

    Daylight come and I wanna go home!