Who'd have thought the Bush Admin could eff up our national bioterrorism lab?!!

It's pretty dammned horrifing when you think about it. Heckuva job, Bushie!

Here's the CDC's list of potenital bioagents, btw, just to scare ya.

J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Arenaviruses
B
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum toxin)
Brucella species (brucellosis)
Brucellosis (Brucella species)
Burkholderia mallei (glanders)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (melioidosis)
C
Chlamydia psittaci (psittacosis)
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
Clostridium botulinum toxin (botulism)
Clostridium perfringens (Epsilon toxin)
Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
E
Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever
E. coli O157:H7 (Escherichia coli)
Emerging infectious diseases such as Nipah virus and hantavirus
Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens
Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli)
F
Food safety threats (e.g., Salmonella species, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Shigella)
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
G
Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
L
Lassa fever
M
Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever
Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)
P
Plague (Yersinia pestis)
Psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci)
Q
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
R
Ricin toxin from Ricinus communis (castor beans)
Rickettsia prowazekii (typhus fever)
S
Salmonella species (salmonellosis)
Salmonella Typhi (typhoid fever)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella species)
Shigella (shigellosis)
Shigellosis (Shigella)
Smallpox (variola major)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
T
Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
Typhoid fever (Salmonella Typhi)
Typhus fever (Rickettsia prowazekii)
V
Variola major (smallpox)
Vibrio cholerae (cholera)
Viral encephalitis (alphaviruses )
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (filoviruses and arenaviruses )
W
Water safety threats (e.g., Vibrio cholerae, Cryptosporidium parvum)
Y
Yersinia pestis (plague)

F-

I'm not some other guy that gets mentioned, tho

that isn't nailed down.

Between massive catastrophic natural disasters wiping out whole regions and massive catastrophic terrorist attacks wiping out parts of cities, they fucked up a bioweapons program. Who'd have thunk it?

I really can't think of any other government agency they haven't fucked up.

I'm trying really hard and I can't think of one except that one.

they were having some problems with the calibration standards, something about the kilogram loosing weight for reasons they couldn't explain.

Don't know if * was involved, but it wouldn't surprise me.

found it...

Official Kilogram Losing Mass: Scientists Propose Redefining It As A Precise Number Of Carbon Atoms

It turns out that nobody can say for sure, at least not in a way that won't change ever so slightly over time. The official kilogram -- a cylinder cast 118 years ago from platinum and iridium and known as the International Prototype Kilogram or "Le Gran K" -- has been losing mass, about 50 micrograms at last check. The change is occurring despite careful storage at a facility near Paris.

That's not so good for a standard the world depends on to define mass.

Now, two U.S. professors -- a physicist and mathematician -- say it's time to define the kilogram in a new and more elegant way that will be the same today, tomorrow and 118 years from now. They've launched a campaign aimed at redefining the kilogram as the mass of a very large -- but precisely-specified -- number of carbon-12 atoms.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070921110735.htm