The Secretive Fight Against Bioterror

[rossana <rossana at comodinoposta.org>]

The Secretive Fight Against Bioterror
The government is building a highly classified facility to research 
biological weapons, but its closed-door approach has raised concerns.
On the grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the 
Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike 
any seen since biological weapons were banned 34 years ago.
The heart of the lab is a cluster of sealed chambers built to contain 
the world's deadliest bacteria and viruses. There, scientists will spend 
their days simulating the unthinkable: bioterrorism attacks in the form 
of lethal anthrax spores rendered as wispy powders that can drift for 
miles on a summer breeze, or common viruses turned into deadly superbugs 
that ordinary drugs and vaccines cannot stop.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900592.html?referrer=emailThe