IT IS part of a “regional centre of excellence” for biodefence, but Texas A&M University in College Station has been ordered to stop research into potential bioweapons until further notice.
The move follows the revelation that lab staff had been exposed to dangerous “select agents”. The accidents were reported in documents obtained by the Sunshine Project, a pressure group based in Austin.
The university failed to inform the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a case of brucellosis in February 2006, and two months later three staff were found to have antibodies to the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, which…
