Power failure hits CDC germ lab Fort Collins Oct 10th

[preciousdove]

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4154044,00.html

...As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory was without power for 13 hours, beginning at 3:07 p.m. Monday, Bohlander said. CSU owns the building and leases it to the government.No germ collections were damaged, the public was not endangered, and no security breach occurred, said CDC spokeswoman Jennifer Morcone...

It houses freeze-dried samples of about 1,000 plague strains, along with smaller collections of two other potential bioweapons, tularemia and Venezuelan equine encephalitis.

West Nile virus and the microbes that cause Lyme disease and yellow fever also are stored at the lab, which is west of downtown Fort Collins on Colorado State's Foothills Campus.

...Extra security guards were posted during the blackout, which disabled the lab's video surveillance system and the electronic card keys that control access to restricted areas, Morcone said....

(Lyme Disease is one of 34 potiential Bio-weapons according to the FEDS a fact overlooked by this reporter. Makes me wonder what else he overlooked in this report.)

[Mnemosyne]

1. Hmmm. n/t

[aquart]

2. And we believe them because our government tells us the truth.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Like

keeping a mad pet tiger then forget to lock up gate one night.
Oh well lets hope they got good back up power.
Eihter that all those ready make freeze-dried disaster ooops oops.

[truth2power]

4. So the blackout

"disabled the lab's video surveillance system and the electronic card keys that control access to restricted areas, Morcone said...."

I think I saw this on "Mission Impossible" once. Just sayin'..