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The Biocontainment Conundrum

2009-03-08 04:00:56 // The Operator
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  1. There currently are 400 U.S. institutions and 15,000 U.S. individuals authorized to possess bioweapons agents.
  2. Security measures at the overwhelming majority of the 400 U.S. institutions that possess bioweapons agents are inadequate.
  3. Very few of the 400 institutions have comprehensive video monitoring of work areas.
  4. Very few of the 400 institutions have a two-person rule (a rule requiring that at least two persons be present when bioweapons agents are handled).
  5. Very few of the 400 institutions perform psychological screening and psychological monitoring of personnel.

- Army Biowar Lab Suspends Research After Toxin-Tracking Scare
by Jason Sigger at Wired.com

The problem of containment becomes a problem of incident response as the number of facilities increases.

New project: Enumerate facilities and track incidents.

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One Response to “The Biocontainment Conundrum”

  1. stevan Says:
    2009-11-14 03:07:46

    number 4 is morbidly humourous considering a “two-person rule” is just one away from the loneliest number.

    hey, is there anyway that you could set up an auto-reply to commenters’ e-mails with a link in the message to the post which they commented on? sometimes i comment on a blog that i found through a link, and finding it again to see if you replied has been a pain.

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