Comments on: NoLa’s Biolab Mystery

By: Anton O'Nimh

Anton O'Nimh — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:12:01 +0000

Wakeup and Gretna Native,
No, you do your research before falsely accusing the author of writing or meaning something that he did NOT write or mean. The context of New Orelans in the article is the Metropolis of New Orelans, not the City of New Orelans. The Metropolis includes Covington. I don’t live in the district of Washington, DC; but I do live in the metropolis of Washington, DC. If someone says that I am located in Washington, DC; that is not necessarily wrong. Get a life you two as there are more important things about which to worry!

By: wakeup

wakeup — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:26:06 +0000

DO some research next time retard… Covington is not in New Orleans
“In Covington, just north of New Orleans, Tulane’s high-security National Primate Research Center reported only minor damage and said none of its 5,000 research animals escaped. “
SOURCE: AP

By: Blonde Genes

Blonde Genes — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:47:58 +0000

How many labs, what kind of bioagents? Were the animals floating? Bioagent in liquid nitrogen, not evacuated.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread170401/pg1

By: Sweet Eugenia

Sweet Eugenia — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:38:46 +0000

There were also independent bioresearch labs in and about New Orleans with, again, primates and animals and bioagents.
LSU reported that it’s facility was flooded.

By: Nick Schwellenbach

Nick Schwellenbach — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:31:46 +0000

I’ve been looking into this. It looks like all is okay at the NOLA biolabs.
Here’s what veteran LSU anthrax research Professor Hugh-Jones wrote me the following in email correspondence over the last few days:
“Off the cuff I would not expect a great threat as without electricity the refridgerators will slowly warm up and thus kill any stored organisms. Ditto any liquid nitrogen storage devices. And anyone breaking in has to know exactly where to go to get what. I very much doubt that there were any hidden Al Qaida cells lurking in sinful Catholic New Orleans.“
”…the present BSL-3 labs now have locks, some merchanical, some electronic/electric. So anyone wanting to break into such a lab in a possibly abandoned LSU or Tulane or LADHHS building in New Orleans will have to have a sledgehammer with them.“
“However yesterday I had the opportunity of discussing this problem with Dr Raoult Ratard, the Louisiana State Epidemiologist, who temporarily has his office & staff in Baton Rouge. He said that they got police permission to open the LADHHS PHS BSL-3 lab, and suitably supervised they cut the chain on the door, got in, poured chlorox into their single vial of Brucellas suis from a recent investigation — all that was in the laboratory — and then got on with the real business which was to recover the two laptop computers in the lab (using the bolt cutter again) which they really needed in Baton Rouge.”

By: gretna native

gretna native — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:29:13 +0000

Those of you unfamiliar with NOLA and surrounding geography would do well to look at a map. May I suggest you go to yahoo maps and type in Covington, LA? Covington is NOT in N.O. It is across Lake Pontchartrain and a little bit inland from the lake. (The causeway across the lake is 26 miles long — longest bridge in the world — another tidbit that is interesting in N.O. trivia). That area did not get flooded. It did have some wind damage from downed trees etc.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:30:11 +0000

Ah spoot. I’m both happy and not so happy that some public attention is getting on this story. I’m happy cause now the people know about it, and I’m not so happy cause if any terrorist cells around here haven’t already looked into it…they will now. Ah well.

By: Jason Coleman

Jason Coleman — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:45:15 +0000

While it’s certainly good news that the monkeys and any possible contagion vectors from the Tulane PRC are contained, the question about the labs in New Orleans bears further investigation.
While I’m sure they have systems in place to deal with containment, I’d be interested to know if any were breached due to the severity of flooding, winds and subsequent loss of services. I’m sure most on-site generators are running low on fuel.
Well, at least that gives me something to do tonight.
–Jason

By: foo

foo — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:09:50 +0000

Curses, hyperlinks don’t work, d’oh.
Older Tulane messages are here:
http://www.tulane.edu/past.html

By: foo

foo — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:08:56 +0000

“What’s happened to the infected animals? Are they free and roaming?” Russ wants to know. “Are they dead, with their diseased bodies floating in the flood waters? And what about the cultures and vials of the diseases? Are they still secure? Are they being stolen? Were they washed away, now forming part of the toxic soup that coats the city?“
Geez people, it’s not hard to find out. Check the messages from Scott Cowen, the Tulane President, at http://www.tulane.edu. You can see his older messages here. In his words, from Sept. 5th, ” I am happy to report that our National Primate Center in Covington, La. is already functioning under near normal conditions.“
Yawn, that was hard.