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4/19/2005 This article appeared on a website called the Sunshine Project. They frequently do FOIA requests of government documents and release them to the public. The focus of most of their requests is generally the biodefense industry. It seems that UW-Madison has sold a number of aerosol containment units--which are used to infect animals with deadly infectious diseases via mixing the agent with an aerosol propellant into the chamber where the animals are held. A chamber that had a leak was responsible for three tuberculosis infections in a Seattle lab last year. Could this be linked to the very odd tuberculosis case at Marquette University here in Milwaukee? They do have a grad level biological reasearch program and they purport to prepare students for positions in the biotechnology field. Inside information would be helpful, if anyone knows if Marquette does have one of these aerosol containment units please post it in the comments.
posted by Nathan Hall at 4/19/2005 02:26:00 PM link |
