Outbreaks and Safety Concerns in Biodefense Research

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Movies

• 28 Days Later

• Outbreak

• The Omega Man

Suggested Speakers

• Ernest Takafuji
  Assistant Director of Biodefense Research Affairs
  National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

• Mary Wulff
  Coalition for a Safe Lab

• Patrick Stockton
  Microbiologist
  Centers for Disease Control, Special Pathogens Branch

• Ellen Berlin
  Director of Corporate Communications
  Boston University Medical Center

• Eve Lyman
  Director
  Boston Mobilization

• Carla Richards
  Director of Community Relations
  Boston University Medical Center

• Kyle Loring
  Legal Fellow
  Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)

Websites

• NIAID Biodefense Research
  Biosafety Lab Tour
  http://www2.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/Public/blt2.htm

• World Health Organization Laboratory Biosafety manual, Second edition (revised), Interim guidelines
  http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/biosafety/who_cds_csr_lyo_20034/en/

• CDC's Office of Health and Safety: information on laboratory Biosafety
  www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/biosfty.htm

• Interactive site on BSL-4 Lab safety by CDC
  http://www.cdc.gov/global/labbsl.htm

• Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG): A list of accidents and Security breaches at Biocontainment Laboratories
  http://gene-watch.org/bubiodefense/pages/accidents.html

Books and Publications

• Virus Hunter: 30 years of Battling Hot Viruses around the Word
  by Mark Olshaker, C.J Peters

• The Demon in the Freezer
  Richard Preston

• Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
  by Joseph McCormick, Susan Fisher-Hock

• The Hot Zone
  by Richard Preston

Articles

• "SARS's Second Act, Playing in Laboratories" by Lawrence K. Altman (New York Times, May 18, 2004)

• "SARS Cases in Asia Show Labs' Risk: As Scientists Battle Disease, Accidents can Infect Public" by David Brown (Washington Post, May 29, 2004)

• "Mixing Bugs and Bombs" by Jay Coghlan and Kelley Marylia (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Oct. 2003, Vol. 59, No. 5, pg 24-31)

• "Accidental Anthrax Shipment Spurs Debate Over Safety" by Martin Enserink and Jocelyn Kaiser (Science, June 18, 2004, 304 pg 171-172)

• "Change work processes to cut chance of human error" by Andy Ho (The Straits Times, Sept 24, 2003)

• "US government launches Biolab Building Spree" by John D. Miller (The Scientist, May 24, 2004, 18, pg 48-49)

• "Expert: Labs are biggest SARS Threat" by Steve Mitchell (Washington Times, Dec. 18, 2003)

• "Mounting Lab Accidents Raise SARS Fears" by Dennis Normile (Science, April 30, 2003, 304 pg 659-660)

• "SARS labs unsafe, says WHO: Scientific advisors call for international regime to regulate pathogens Biocontainment" by Robert Walgate (The Scientist, June 3, 2004)

• "WHO Conference Proposes Lab Safety Measures on SARS" (U.N. Wire, October 23, 2003).

• "Lab Security breach blamed in China SARS"(USA Today, April 26, 2004)

• " Researchers unaware they had live anthrax" (CNN, June 10, 2004)

• "Loose Monkey Teaches Biodefense Lab a Lesson on the Hazards of Secrecy" (June 9, 2004)