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Published online 10 October 2007 | Nature 449, 646-647 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449646a

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Congress grills officials over biosafety boom

Is bioterror research really making life safer?

Critics are questioning whether a multi-billion-dollar programme to improve public safeguards against dangerous pathogens is really making the United States safer than it was before.

The criticism surfaced in Washington on 4 October, when members of Congress grilled officials of the Bush administration over the rapid expansion of laboratories that house pathogens such as anthrax and Ebola.

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    • 15 Oct, 2007
    • Posted by: Bert Sanderson