Residents Voice Anger, Concerns Over BU Biolab
A sizable crowd turned out to oppose the plans to begin Level 4 operations at the South End facility.
Upwards of 100 concerned citizens turned out Thursday night for a public hearing at Roxbury Community College to voice their disapproval and anger over a controversial Boston University laboratory in the South End. Known as the BU Biolab, the University wants to begin creating and studying the world’s deadliest pathogens at the facility—a Level 4 bio-containment lab—which is located on Albany Street, in the heart of a densely packed residential neighborhood. The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, a 192,000-square-foot high-security biolab, has been tied up by legal challenges and regulatory reviews for a number of years. The facility is designed to study deadly germs such as Ebola, SARS and plague. “We do not dispute the …
Tom Francoeur
9:39 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Check out the March 12th issue of The New Yorker, an article called "The Deadliest Virus." It's about the type of research that goes on in facilties like this. The basic thesis - security protocols have not been adequately developed for many of these labs. See article abstract here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_specter more ›