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Kansas Wins Competition for $450 million Federal Biodefense Laboratory

Colleagues,

As reported in the Associated Press...Kansas has won a three-year competition to land a new $450 million federal laboratory to study livestock diseases and some of the world's most dangerous biological threats. The Homeland Security Department's choice of a lab site at Kansas State University in Manhattan beat out rival bids from Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas. Kansas' new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility would replace an aging 24-acre research complex on Plum Island, New York, where research is conducted on foot-and-mouth disease and anthrax.

Read on at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8128573

ENJOY!

CC

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