US Study: Changing virus research location could be costly - (Associated Press, USA Today)
June 21, 2008 – 10:57 pmWASHINGTON An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted, says a new report published Friday.
The 1,005-page Homeland Security Department report said chances of such an outbreak with estimated loses of more than $42.billion would be “extremely low” if the research lab were designed, constructed and operated according to government safety standards.
Still, it calculated that economic losses in an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease could surpass $4 billion if the lab were built near livestock herds in Kansas or Texas, two options the Bush administration is considering. That would be nearly $1 billion higher than the government’s estimate of losses blamed on a hypothetical outbreak from its existing laboratory on Plum […]
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