The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab in Utah prompted military officials to order an immediate freeze on operations at nine biodefense laboratories that work with dangerous viruses, toxins and bacteria, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
The moratorium, first reported by USA TODAY, came after officials took a detailed look at policies and procedures at the labs and found them wanting, according to Defense officials. Labs at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground facility in Utah have been the focus of international concern since May, when the first clues emerged that the facility had been mistakenly shipping live anthrax — instead of killed specimens — to labs in the USA and abroad for years.
An ongoing USA TODAY Media Network investigation has revealed numerous safety problems at government, university and private labs that operate in the secretive world of biodefense research. Federal lab regulators are conducting comprehensive reviews of how they oversee lab safety and security.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @07:38PM
Move all the dangerous germ labs to The Overseas. Ain't nobody in those Overseas except sandniggas dat deserve to get killed by our germ weapons anyways.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @10:01PM
Move all the dangerous germ labs to The Overseas.
Haven't we tried that already?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3887.htm [informationclearinghouse.info]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_biological_weapons_program#Startup_and_foreign_suppliers [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by Ayn Anonymous on Friday September 04 2015, @07:59PM
Anthrax is bad, it effects also non Homo sapiens.
Can we please concentrate on diseases (i.e. smallpox) that effects only humans?
The other habitants of this planet don't deserve to suffer from out extinction.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday September 04 2015, @08:26PM
Anthrax is also common. Its found in the environment naturally, just about everywhere in the world.
http://www.livescience.com/48093-anthrax-lures-zebras-to-their-death.html [livescience.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 05 2015, @02:36AM
Bingo. I can, if I want, step right outside the door, and start sifting the earth for the spores. When the wife was a young girl, her daddy had to destroy a herd of cattle due to anthrax. Right here, in southwest Arkansas, anthrax. Kill the cattle, pile them up on a pyre made of railroad ties, set it alight, then bury the ashes from the pyre.
Some confusion may exist because it was commonly referred to as charbon back then.
https://books.google.com/books?id=BolIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=anthrax+outbreak+in+Arkansas+history&source=bl&ots=A78IrffQhg&sig=4nlIYDmYkuJYRJzgYMzQD_4ysh0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDUQ6AEwA2oVChMIsNum0u3exwIVDxaSCh07wwyZ#v=onepage&q=anthrax%20outbreak%20in%20Arkansas%20history&f=false [google.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @08:22PM
> The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab
Biology wants to be free!
Those fuckers better not forget it either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @09:01PM
The current psychopathic regime has always toyed with the idea of mass suicide.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Saturday September 05 2015, @12:36AM
Biology wants to be free!
It's only the information in their DNA that wants to be free.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @09:31PM
The only explanation is that they finally developed a strain that was acceptable for a weapon. I'm sure they didn't bother with any kind of cure since they are in the business of killing people, not saving them.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday September 04 2015, @10:25PM
Having it 'accidentally' shipped and released is also good for business.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday September 04 2015, @11:17PM
It's in the Taco Bell bathroom, active M-F from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday September 05 2015, @01:48AM
To comment on my own post, why is Taco Bell such a meme? I love TB, it's about the only fast food I'll eat. Never had diarrhea after eating there, not even an upset stomach. That said, I eat there maybe every other month. I'm not much of a fast food aficionado.
Is it like The Daily Show going after Arbie's or something?
CSB.
Back in the early 80s I was scheduled to move to another apt. The place I was moving into suddenly became unavailable, the place I was moving out of already had people ready to move in, and my stuff was in a truck. This was the week before school started, so I found a cheap-ass place in Claremont. Kitty corner to my apt was a Taco Bell, where I could get tacos and burritos for something like $0.29 each (Clairemont Mesa Blvd, about a mile west of the 163 for your San Diego folks). At the time I went to college 8 to 2, worked 4 to midnight, closed down the bars, then went home. I at at that Taco Bell prolly 10-15 times a week, often drunk/sleep deprived/shower deprived.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday September 27 2015, @11:15AM
Pretty sure it started with only tacos and burritos which can be incredibly painful when not made with proper food hygiene and/or with a foreign microbial culture, and then it partly morphed into the Taco Bell thing.
Microbes + spices + lots of soggy parts/very high surface area = easy digestion/liquification & massive microbial growth = nuclear farts or worse X|
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