Increase in Bioweapon Research Creates Risks

For years, scientists have warned of elevated risk from biohazards stemming from the increase in germ warfare research since 9/11. By making repeated requests using the Freedom of Information Act, Ed Hammond of the Sunshine Project, a biosafety pressure group out of Austin Texas, was able to obtain the minutes of university biosafety committees. Hammond's findings include the fact that 20,000 people working at 400 sites around the U.S. are working with bioweapon germs (a ten-fold increase of pre-9/11 work) and that more people handling dangerous germs are a recipe for accidents. The minutes include cases of workers being infected with Anthrax, Valley Fever, TB, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and also some undisclosed genetically engineered microbes.