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US Government Launches Biolab Building Spree
NIH, USDA, and the Army all want more space to study high-risk pathogens
The Scientist 2004, 18(10):48
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The September 11 attacks and five anthrax-related deaths later in the fall of 2001 made it clear that the United States was vunerable to terrorist actions. Those events also caught the nation immediately short of the high-level biocontainment lab space needed to develop antibioweapon vaccines and drug treatments.
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