"accidents" on rise at US labs


	"accidents" on rise at US labs

kkcapricorn

10-2-2007 9:16 PM

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laboratories, testing, germs, diseases, poisons, bio-terrorism

kkcapricorn says:

The reports were so sensitive the Bush administration refused to release them under the Freedom of Information Act, citing an anti-bioterrorism law aimed at preventing terrorists from locating stockpiles of poisons and learning who handles them.

If it's not one thing, it's another - they are going to kill us.

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