DHS underestimates risks of accidental pathogen release at Kansas BioLab

DHS underestimates risks of accidental pathogen release at Kansas BioLab

Manhattan, Kansas, is the proposed location of a new, $450 million BioLab44 DHS research facility; a National Academy of Sciences panel report says that a risk assessment by DHS of the new facility vastly underestimates the risk of an accidental pathogen release from the lab and the associated costs; the NAS report also said last month’s analysis failed to learn from fifteen major accidental releases of the foot and mouth virus around the world.

We wrote earlier in the week about the growing scrutiny the assessment by DHS of the risks associated with the proposed BioLab-4 in Manhattan, Kansas, is drawing (