Boston University

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Boston University officials admitted that the workers

handling the tularemia vaccine did not follow safety procedures.

They removed the principal investigator, Dr. Peter A. Rice, from his

post as chief of infectious diseases but he's still hanging around

looking for a handout. Rice was supposed to be the one training

workers for a new high-security laboratory that will work with much

more lethal creatures – right in Boston.

The tularemia vaccine researchers thought they were working

with a harmless " vaccine strain " of the Francisella tularensis

bacterium but was really a manufactured mutant that was combined

with a dangerous bacteria.

Dr. Thomas J. Moore, acting provost of the university's

medical campus did not report anything to state health authorities

until Nov. 9 even though infection was confirmed on October 29, a

delay he said he could not explain. But he defended the decision not

to tell the public.

" I feel comfortable about the decision not to make a public

announcement because there wasn't a public risk, since tularemia

can't be passed from person to person. " Dr. Moore said. The only

problem with that statement is it wasn't tularemia but a mutant that

had infected the workers.

It is my opinion that Dr. Thomas J. Moore is an incompetent

who has placed not only the campus of Boston University at risk but

the entire city of Boston and indeed the United States. His

immediate resignation would be welcomed and his retirement is

recommended.

He obviously demonstrates no concept whatsoever of the

imminent dangers posed by microbial, viral and recombinant work.

 

 

 

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