Dear Editor: An animal biosafety laboratory for the purpose of studying bird flu and other highly infectious diseases will be built by the University of Wisconsin-Madison two blocks east of Camp Randall Stadium.
UW-Madison has been cited by the National Institutes of Health for violating the stringent regulations for the safe handling of infectious disease agents.
Chronic understaffing of UW-Madison labs may make the escape of germs or infected monkeys into the community a possibility.
A densely populated city area is not an appropriate location for such a danger.
Myrna Sokolinsky
Madison
Posted in Mailbag on Sunday, October 18, 2009 5:00 am Updated: 4:47 pm. Animal Research, University Of Wisconsin-madison
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