… Labs would be prevented from doing research on high-risk agents if the lab is in violation of security requirements. It would also allow the federal government to suspend federal funding for such labs. Further, the amendment requires the Homeland Security Secretary to notify all agencies providing funding for high-risk research which labs have been [...]

There currently are 400 U.S. institutions and 15,000 U.S. individuals authorized to possess bioweapons agents. Security measures at the overwhelming majority of the 400 U.S. institutions that possess bioweapons agents are inadequate. Very few of the 400 institutions have comprehensive video monitoring of work areas. Very few of the 400 institutions have a two-person rule [...]

The frozen remains of two mice injected with the organism that causes plague have not been accounted for seven weeks after being discovered missing at a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey facility in Newark, the university said Friday. The FBI investigated and determined there was no risk to public health or any [...]

“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” – William Seward Burroughs in “My Own Business” Loss of All Systems Including UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) and Emergency Generators [...]