From: Clive Denton
Date: 2007-09-19 09:49:41
Ebola Error in Wisconsin Shows Lax Federal Biodefense Oversight Similar Violations May be Undetected Elsewhere Sourced: The Sunshine Project Date: 19 Sep 2007 In 2005 and into the summer of 2006, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) made and manipulated copies of the entire Ebola virus genome without proper safety precautions. Although federal safety rules required a maximum protection Biosafety Level Four (BSL-4) lab for the research, UW allowed it to proceed at the much less safe and secure BSL-3 level… They prohibit working at BSL-3 with Ebola (and similarly dangerous) virus material that has not been rendered irreversibly incapable of reproducing. UW does not have a BSL-4 lab suitable for handling Ebola virus, which is one of the most dangerous pathogens in the world. Read Full Report
