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US government launches biolab building spree:NIH, USDA, and the Army all want more space to study high-risk pathogens
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Author: John Dudley Miller
Date: May 24, 2004
From: The Scientist(Vol. 18, Issue 10)
Publisher: Scientist Inc.
Document Type: Article
Length: 1,540 words
The September 11 attacks and five anthrax-related deaths later in the fall of 2001 made it clear that the United States was vunerable to terrorist actions. Those events also caught the nation immediately short of the high-level biocontainment lab space needed to develop antibioweapon vaccines and drug treatments.
Since then, the US Congress has approved plans for the National Institutes of Health to spend as much as $500 million on new biosafety space over the next few years, (1) and other federal agencies hope to receive as much as another $1.2 billion from Congress for new space they have planned, for a total of $1.7 billion. The federal biolab build-out is massive and unprecedented. NIH plans to build 8,082 square meters of the highest-level space, 20 times as much as its 390 square meters of existing usable space. The Army, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) also plan to build new secure labs.
With so much space and money at stake, questions have proliferated. The federal government has not defined exactly how much biocontainment space is needed, how much money it will take to operate these labs every year, or how to phase in thousands of new researchers to staff the new labs. One prominent opponent asserts that the federal building program is overkill and will impoverish nonbiodefense biological research for decades to come. "I definitely believe that current and approved [biosafety lab] construction will result in significant over-capacity," said Richard Ebright, a chemistry professor and microbiology researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
SPACE SHORTFALL After the 2001 attacks, the United States found itself critically short in lab space needed to study pathogens for which there are no vaccines, including viruses highly infectious by aerosol: Lassa fever, Marburg, and Ebola. Access to these pathogens requires biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) labs, (2) the highest level of containment, where researchers wear pressurized suits supplied by outside air. The researchers work only under sealed hoods equipped with built-in rubber gloves.
Most of the available civilian BSL-4 space is concentrated in two labs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and is open only to government researchers. "That space is busy as it can be," says Rona Hirschberg, a senior program officer at the National Institute of Allergy…
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