NBAF -- the upgraded version of Plum Island -- opened in Manhattan, KS this week.

“I don’t understand why you’d put a facility like that in the middle of a highly productive cattle and crops area,”

(I didn't get it either when the location was selected, and I was a biological weapons analyst at the time. Bad judgment.)

The decision to put NBAF “in the middle of livestock country and tornado alley was real hubris”

#pathogens #zoonoses #biothreats

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-u-s-lab-will-work-deadly-animal-pathogen-middle-farm-country