insomnomaniac

Something deadly in Boston besides guns?

Get a load of this!

BOSTON (AP) -- Boston University won final federal approval Thursday for a controversial plan to build a research laboratory in the city's South End that would handle some of the world's most dangerous and exotic germs.

The decision by the National Institutes of Health secures $128 million in federal funding for the lab, which will be part of a national group of facilities that will study infectious diseases such as ebola and the West Nile virus.

University officials said the lab will be safe and will provide needed research into contagious illnesses and the risk they might pose in the hands of bioterrorists.

But opponents have criticized the decision to build the lab in a densely populated urban neighborhood.

The controversy escalated in 2004, when three workers at another BU lab became sick after they were exposed to a highly infectious strain of tularemia, or rabbit fever. They recovered.

So where is Mumbles on this? Isn't he worried that the germs (probably pronounced "joims") will sneak out of the lab and go around wantonly killing people like guns do? Isn't he the least concerned that something smaller than a handgun, more lethal than a bullet (hey, you can survive a gunshot wound if it doesn't hit anything vital, tell that to ebola victims) and able to infect tall buildings (full of voters) in a single sneeze is going to be stored in his city?

Well at least germs don't kill people, people kill...oh wait, germs do kill people. Oops!

Posted by insomnomaniac at February 3, 2006 8:39 PM | TrackBack