CDC lab containing deadly virus suffers power outage | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 304696 United States 07/12/2008 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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OxygenX User ID: 466305 United Kingdom 07/12/2008 07:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nothing much to worry about. Cheers. ----------------------------- "Shit, if this is gonna be that kind of party, I'm going to stick my dick in the mashed potatoes." "The gene pool is stagnant and I am the minister of chlorine" "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 461504 United States 07/12/2008 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would imagine that they have redundancy built in for this type of emergancy. I take it they work with and upto Biosafty Level 4 which means air in and out of those places is scrubbed multiple times, entry in and out of labs through airlock chambers, showers and other forms of decontamination. Quoting: OxygenXNothing much to worry about. Then why are they so worried? |
malu User ID: 421073 United States 07/12/2008 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would imagine that they have redundancy built in for this type of emergancy. I take it they work with and upto Biosafty Level 4 which means air in and out of those places is scrubbed multiple times, entry in and out of labs through airlock chambers, showers and other forms of decontamination. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 461504Nothing much to worry about. Then why are they so worried? yeah this makes no sense, like KN said, back up to the back up and check it daily on the other hand, they had video evidence of the person taking anthrax cultures out of the lab and that person is still free yeah i would be worried too if i lived near that "By way of deception, thou shalt do war." Israel's Mossad "The truth shall set you free." U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Motto |
Anxious Mo-Fo (OP) User ID: 458316 United States 07/12/2008 09:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yeah this makes no sense, like KN said, back up to the back up and check it daily Quoting: maluon the other hand, they had video evidence of the person taking anthrax cultures out of the lab and that person is still free yeah i would be worried too if i lived near that Malu, you just made me realize something. The worry I have is for these pathogens escaping on their own when the power goes out. I just realized after reading your post that no one asked about physical security in these buildings when the power goes out. In other words, the juice goes out, what's to prevent someone from entering or leaving a sensitive area with something that should stay in the lab? If backup power is unavailable, I'm assuming certain key systems in the buildings go on some form of UPS unit(s). But with the power issues we've had in this area for the past few years, those battery systems are going to need constant maintenance. For all the $$$ they have dumped into new onstruction on their campus over the years it seems they are really ignoring the maintnance of systems based on these reports we've been hearing. What's to say the electric keylock and monitoring systms and the alarms aren't hooked into a UPS system that won't stay up for more than a half hour after things go hot, dark and quiet? Perhaps just long enough to take down some servers and a few support systems. After those systems have sucked the batteries down, access could be easily gained and movement out of the facilities would be just as easy. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 466463 United States 07/13/2008 07:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The obvious question is WHY breed these bioweapons in the first place? Why not call it what it is:Center for Disease SPREAD. Where do you think the agents are MADE to put in certain lots of vaccine bottles to be sent to public "health" or the poor areas or resisters groups?Where do they grow the stuff to spray on "sterile" gauzes in the hospital wars or for low patient census times? |