CDC suspends biodefense research at Texas A&M - (Denton Record-Chronicle)
September 5, 2007 – 11:53 pmAUSTIN — Federal health officials were cited as declaring in an exhaustive reprimand of the university that Texas A&M won’t be allowed to resume biodefense research until federal agents are sure campus labs no longer pose a threat to public health.
The story says that the 21-page report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents problems ranging from unauthorized access to high-security labs and missing vials of infectious diseases. It follows months of scrutiny over the university’s failure to report lab workers being exposed to dangerous biological agents.
The CDC report doesn’t indicate whether the university will face a penalty for failing to report one lab worker’s infection with Brucella and three others’ exposure to Q fever last year.
That news, which could include suspension of funding or up to $500,000 in fines, is expected in a separate report from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general.
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