{"id":1233,"date":"2003-08-19T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/19\/boston-university-wants-worlds-deadlie"},"modified":"2003-08-19T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2003-08-20T00:11:09","slug":"boston-university-wants-worlds-deadliest-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/19\/boston-university-wants-worlds-deadliest-pathogens\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University Wants World&#8217;s Deadliest Pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a696'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Boston University is planning to construct a $1.6 billion dollar<br \/>\n        biodefense facility in a crowded low-income neighborhood in the Boston<br \/>\n        area. Neighbors are understandably upset, as the announced facility would<br \/>\n        contain live smallpox, Ebola and plague viruses, as well as an additonal<br \/>\n        assortment of the deadliest pathogens known to man.<\/p>\n<p>BU announced last February its application to the National Institute<br \/>\n        of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to build a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory<br \/>\n        in BU&#8217;s BioSquare complex in the South End. Staff at the facility would<br \/>\n        be first responders to a bioterrorist attack, and they would work in<br \/>\n        high-security labs capable of housing pathogens deemed highly transmissible<br \/>\n      and deadly. <\/p>\n<p>In typical highhanded community oversight BU has  failed to properly<br \/>\n        advertise meetings about a lab that would play a key role in the defense<br \/>\n      against terrorism, ignoring rising neighborhood and environmental resistence<br \/>\n        to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I am a full-time employee of Boston University, and<br \/>\n        I don&#8217;t want the damn thing in MY back yard&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2003\/08\/19\/opposition_grows_to_bus_biodefense_lab_plan\">from<br \/>\n          the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University is planning to construct a $1.6 billion dollar biodefense facility in a crowded low-income neighborhood in the Boston area. Neighbors are understandably upset, as the announced facility would contain live smallpox, Ebola and plague viruses, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/19\/boston-university-wants-worlds-deadliest-pathogens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}