Homegrown incompetents?

I don't think duct tape and plastic wrap will save us from these guys....

The Centers for Disease Control has suspended bioweapons research at Texas A+M University, after the school failed to report four workers' exposure to biological agents. It's the first time the CDC has ever forced a research facility to stop work on so-called "select agents." Five labs and more than 120 lab researchers' efforts have been halted, pending a CDC investigation.

Three researchers tested positive for exposure to the weapons agent Q fever in April 2006, two months after another researcher fell ill from contact with the another agent, Brucella, according to documents obtained by an Austin-based bioweapons watchdog group.

University officials waited one year to report the Brucella case to the Centers for Disease Control. The Q fever case still has not been reported. Federal law requires quick reporting of incidents.

"The diseases, while rarely fatal in humans, cause high fevers and flulike symptoms, and both are difficult to cure," the Dallas Morning-News notes. "There was little danger of a disease outbreak – transmission of one of the diseases between humans is rare, and it's unheard of with the other – but the breakdown in reporting on the diseases could indicate a broader problem in bioweapons research, say the activists who uncovered it."

Weird update by the blogger asking was he the only one who's creeped out by the fact that this guy was running Texas A+M during the incidents?