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Author: KathleenKathleen Date: Oct 2, 2006 12:21
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:19:40 -0700 (PDT)
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20909-2384208,00.html
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The Curse of the Deadly Hotlab. Coming soon to a town near
you?
Science Notebook by Anjana Ahuja
THERE ARE laboratories, and then there are biosafety Level
4
laboratories. The latter are the kind of labs you get when Hollywood
makes films
about killer microbes crawling out of a test tube to unleash Armageddon
(usually
featuring a stunning blonde scientist who averts doom by finding the
stopper for
said test tube).
BSL-4 labs, or so-called hot labs, are required for
research with
"dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high individual risk of
aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening
disease". These
are the only places where organisms such as Ebola, Lassa and smallpox
viruses
can be studied. There are airlocks, alarmed ventilation systems and
decontaminating
showers; staff wear pressure suits with life support systems.
There are triple locks and sometimes even armed guards.
There used to be only a handful of hot labs, such as those
at the
Atlanta HQ of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and at
Porton Down,
Wiltshire. Now, Engineering.com reports, growing fears of bioterrorism
have led
to a building boom in the US. The problem is, many people don't want
them in
their backyard.
One of the fiercest battles over such a construction has
been fought
in south Boston, where Boston University wants to site a $178 million
hot lab.
Supporters of Biolab have appealed to Bostonians' sense of
patriotism, by saying
that the lab will help to protect America. Protesters, who cannot see
why such a
facility should be located in an urban area, point to the accidental
infection
in 1994 of three Boston University
academics with bacterial tularaemia (they
recovered). There have been other incidents around the world; for
example, the
escape from labs of the Sars virus, once with fatal consequences.
Shortly after Biolab was approved in 2003, 146 university
professors
across Massachusetts sent a letter of protest to the Mayor of Boston,
saying
that human error and terrorism posed unacceptable risks. Some were also
outraged
that Biolab was being built in a relatively poor neighbourhood. This
August ten
residents mounted a successful legal challenge against the
university's
environmental review of the project. The review must be conducted
again, meaning
that the project will be delayed but probably not derailed.
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