In its on-going efforts to pigeonhole out all things terror - related , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has just release a elephantine study on its architectural plan to work up a mega bio - defense science lab where scientists will analyse the Earth ’s deadliest disease for human and animals . Basically , it will be a real - life version of that lab you saw in the recent A&E revamp of The Andromeda Strain . Sounds awe-inspiring , right ? The job is that disease leaks from the lab are not entirely unlikely , concord to the write up .
concord to UPI :
The department also assess the possibility of a terrorist attack releasing pathogen from the lab — which will work on the most infectious animal diseases , like Foot and Mouth ; and on those most deadly to humankind , like the Hendra and Nipah viruses . The overall risk appraisal for a loss at the five mainland sites was “ temperate ” because of “ the potential easy gap of a disease through stock or wildlife ” nearby , the statement said .
The new lab , to be build up in 2010 , will replace an existing bio - defense lab on Long Island . That lab , called the Plum Island Animal Disease Center , is outdated and no longer utilitarian . DHS wants its researchers to study “ zoonotic diseases ” that skip from animals to mass ( can you say “ bird flu ” ? ) , and to do that they need a facility at “ bio - security department level 4 , ” the highest level . Plum Island only goes up to take down 3 . About ten percent of the new facility will be at level 4 .
DHS is currently look at five potential sites in the mainland United States . They ’d comfortably hope nobody in those town has show The Hot Zone or examine 28 Clarence Day Later .
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