Source: PhillyBurbs.com
So...vials containing anthrax and plague-infested mice have gone missing from two labs in New Jersey over the past year. But don't worry! Authorities think that the missing items weren't actually lost, just unaccounted for due to clerical errors.
All of you can breathe easier now
Now for the scary part:
"The fact that they don't know the answer means they're not running a properly secured facility," professor Richard Ebright said of both cases. "The odds are that it was an accounting error, but it is very possible that one of the persons with access to the lab has removed that material."
Ebright said the U.S. should store all its hazardous bio-agents at a single, secure location rather than having them scattered across the country.
"If an adversary of the United States, such as al-Qaida, wanted to obtain this material, the most effective, simple procedure to do so is to plant a person in one of those numerous institutions that the administration has put in place working with this material," he said. "Because the number of those institutions has increased and because it happened without an increase in effective security, the risk to the United States has dramatically increased."
Sweet dreams, folks!
Tags: [New Jersey], [two labs in New Jersey are missing plague-infested mice and vials of anthrax], [accounting error?], [Richard Ebright], [hazardous bio-agents], [information like this is pretty damn useful for the real terrorists out there]
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