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Home » Chem-Bio » Biolabs Metastasize

Biolabs Metastasize

Been sleep­ing well lately? This Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists arti­cle by Defense Tech pal Nick Schwellenbach should take care of that.
bsl4wkr.jpgIt’s on a sub­ject we worry about a whole lot here at Defense Tech HQ — the ginor­mous growth in biode­fense research, and how the hell to main­tain safety amidst that growth. For exam­ple, 97 per­cent of the folks receivng National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grants for biode­fense research hadn’t touched the bugs before 9/​11, Nick notes.
No won­der three Boston University lab work­ers were infected with tularemia, or rab­bit fever, back in January. “Things like that hap­pen when peo­ple are not trained well,” explained NIAID Director Anthony Fauci.
And those infec­tions went down at a rel­a­tively low-​​risk, “BSL-​​2″ lab. What hap­pens when the school’s BSL-​​4 facil­ity — designed to han­dle killers like Ebola — gets up and run­ning?
Take an ambien, for starters.
(PopSci has more night­mare fod­der here)

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  1. paul heffernan says:
    June 21, 2005 at 11:53 am

    Clean rooms and lam­i­nar flow benches are no more cleaner than the work­ers dici­pline and aware­ness of the haz­zards being worked upon. DRILL,DRILL, THE SAFETY BASICS until they become as nat­ural as a reflex,for the lab techs. Develope slide shows to edu­cate all who work at or in the labs.
    A well devel­oped micro foren­sic slide show will go a long way to implant in to every­ones mind the need for alert­ness at the work sta­tion.
    Posted by Paul Heffernan,06/21/05

    Reply
  2. paul heffernan says:
    June 21, 2005 at 11:53 am

    Clean rooms and lam­i­nar flow benches are no more cleaner than the work­ers dici­pline and aware­ness of the haz­zards being worked upon. DRILL,DRILL, THE SAFETY BASICS until they become as nat­ural as a reflex,for the lab techs. Develope slide shows to edu­cate all who work at or in the labs.
    A well devel­oped micro foren­sic slide show will go a long way to implant in to every­ones mind the need for alert­ness at the work sta­tion.
    Posted by Paul Heffernan,06/21/05

    Reply
  3. paul heffernan says:
    June 21, 2005 at 11:55 am

    Clean rooms and lam­i­nar flow benches are no more cleaner than the work­ers dici­pline and aware­ness of the haz­zards being worked upon. DRILL,DRILL, THE SAFETY BASICS until they become as nat­ural as a reflex,for the lab techs. Develope slide shows to edu­cate all who work at or in the labs.
    A well devel­oped micro foren­sic slide show will go a long way to implant in to every­ones mind the need for alert­ness at the work sta­tion. (pre­vent cross contamination,by good habits)
    Posted by Paul Heffernan,06/21/05

    Reply
  4. Jack says:
    June 23, 2005 at 9:33 am

    the rea­son for these prob­lems is that the CDC NIH Safety Guidelines for BSL Labs are just that–not true regulations.

    Reply
  5. armando sqanchezserrano says:
    June 29, 2005 at 1:58 pm

    dis­troy these room why your prob­lem it‘s con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and an incin­er­ate all mate­r­ial no‘t uses after the perssonal re-​​training and re-​​training and then biuld a new room ester­il­isate and her­metic im from mex­ico city

    Reply
  6. Jonathan Lee says:
    July 5, 2005 at 2:37 pm

    These are all great ideas but my main con­cern is who has access to all these “bugs” The last thing we need is a secu­rity breach and some fanat­i­cal ter­ror­ist dum­b­ass goes and releases or sells that crap on Ebay. I think secu­rity and clear­ance of per­son­nel should be the top pri­or­ity at bioweapon/​bioresearch facilities.

    Reply
  7. shorty 124 says:
    July 12, 2005 at 10:41 pm

    when I was grow­ing up(now66) my par­ents an M>D & R.N. along with the nurs­ing train­ing and cook­ing train­ing in the USAF goal was to teach in my words that “clean­li­ness is next to god­li­ness” & every­thing should be cleaned so that you can eat off it from flors to ceil­ings if this conept is “drilled” in to all;top to bot­tom per­sonel there wouldn’t be fear of accidents.

    Reply
  8. Lance Winslow says:
    July 14, 2005 at 5:01 pm

    We can­not afford to be lax here. Good com­ments above. Let’s stay heads up and pay atten­tion, this stuff is not funny and it can get all to seri­ous all to quick. No sense in tak­ing unnec­es­sary risks. Play it smart. Think on this.

    Reply
  9. John Ciccone says:
    July 15, 2005 at 9:21 am

    I used to work in the nuclear power indus­try, which has an exten­sive pro­gram, man­dated by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations, to deal with the insider threat.
    The most seri­ous prob­lem we have with bio­lab secu­rity is 1. train­ing and re-​​training. The sug­ges­tions pre­vi­ously listed nail that one pretty well. 2. As a sec­ondary require­ment ongo­ing mon­i­tor­ing of per­son­nel who work with killer bugs is needed.
    In the nuclear power indus­try indi­vid­u­als are mon­i­tored. Periodcally they are inter­viewed by their super­vi­sors. EVERYTHING is fair game, how much are you drink­ing, how’s your mar­riage, are you indebt — how much. If an employee sud­denly gets a cou­ple of speed­ing tick­ets, his boss whats to know why, what’s the cause of the insta­bil­ity. The employee will be taken out of the con­trol room and shifted to a non-​​critical job until a sub­se­quent review allows him back in the room. We used to joke that Ted Kennedy’s drink­ing and wreck­less dri­ving didn’t mean much for being a Senator, but it meant that he could never get a job as a nuclear plant oper­a­tor.
    While this may seem exces­sive, it has been stan­dard oper­at­ing pro­ce­dure in the nuclear indus­try for decades. I rec­om­mend it for who work with dan­ger­ous pathogens.

    Reply
  10. Randy Hart, USAF Retired says:
    August 9, 2005 at 7:05 pm

    The Govt. must step in a reg­u­late these ven­tures very closely, espe­cially in this day and age of worl­wide teror­rism. It seems kind of ironic that a per­son can get in big trou­ble if your car is not envi­ron­men­tally com­pli­ant, but yet you can have a bunch of nim­rods run­ning around play­ing with bio germs and virus’s vir­tu­ally unchecked. The way to play it safe is to not let it hap­pen in the first place unlesss it’s sanc­tioned by the Govt. Just because this is America with it’s free enter­prise sys­tem, that doesn’t give any­one the right to endan­ger the larger pop­u­la­tion with some enter­pris­ing adven­ture that could poten­tially wipe­out mankind.
    Shut those down that are not specif­i­cally work­ing on gov­ern­ment sanc­tioned and reg­u­lated projects. Come on America — –wake up before it’s too late.

    Reply
  11. WR says:
    April 3, 2008 at 8:52 am

    Well said, all!

    Reply
  12. Marshall Maglothin says:
    June 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    It is crit­i­cal that the rapidly expand­ing BSL3 & 4 labs are not “reg­u­lated” and threat­ened with prospec­tive fines for past deficits by an exter­nal, par­ti­san agency.
    Instead, these mission-​​critical labs need a dynamic, state-​​of-​​the-​​art

    Reply
  13. Marshall Maglothin says:
    August 3, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    RE: “More Biolabs to NV, UT, CO, WY area.
    Or share with Yukon Territ, Canada?“
    These labs need to able to recruit and retain the BEST researchers (and their fam­i­lies). I think remote loca­tions would not sup­port this, plus pro­vide a false sense of secu­rity.
    Accidents hap­pen 99.99% of the time WITHIN the lab — whether it is in the Yukon or Boston.

    Reply
  14. Archlord money says:
    August 5, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    In the Beach City is such fear­ful­ness, I am own­ing many Archlord money in my pocket.

    Reply
  15. eve isk says:
    August 5, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    In order to make a lit­tle bit of hun­dreds of thou­sands of eve isk, I com­manded all of the staff hung up the num­ber on the com­puter, and help me mine the mining.

    Reply

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