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