Laboratories working with some of the most infectious diseases,New Orleans

[Windy]

Laboratories working with some of the most infectious diseases including but not limited to Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF),Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF),

1Present address: Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

http://tinyurl.com/csous

More help needed in researching what else the labs had.

[wli]

1. So it's a quarantine? n/t

[fujiyama]

15. I'm not at all big on tin foil hat conspiracy theories

but is there a possibility that the government doesn't want these people out of the immediate area because of the possibility of an outbreak?

I won't jump to conclusions but this is potentially very scary.

[smurfygirl]

2. no shit.

I wonder if anyone broke into the labs looking for stuff.

my god.

[Spazito]

3. Oh shit!

Not good news.

[Windy]

4. I read about this lab on another forum

Apparently its called the Garry Lab at Tulane. They are one of the leading virology research labs in the country...

[spuddonna]

13. More like the 'Scary Lab'...

Ok, so does anyone know what floor, and what conditions this place is in?

[Sgent]

5. My step mother

is a professor at the Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.

Fortunately, the research labs are mostly located on the north shore (across the lake from NOLA). Although there was some research conducted in the Public Health building across from Tulane Hospital downtown. As to what was located where, its anyones guess.

[Angry Girl]

6. Pretty sure Tulane does NOT have a BSL-4 lab

which would be required to handle those critters.

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[Blaq Dem]

7. I see the gov. is still playing around with viruses...

What kind of person would spend their time and talent devising ways to kill human beings with diseases?????? That's some diabolical sh!t. It sounds like something Satan himself would do.

As I was saying, this stuff needs to be sent to the U.N. as a human rights violation.

[davepc]

8. Yeah, we better not study diseases, lest somebody want to use them

as a bio weapon!

which, of course thats what they were doing, as one can obviously tell from the link.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. How else are your suppose to figure out how to cure these diseases

if you can't use them for research. Please buy a clue.

[auracat]

9. tulane university health sciences center:

tropical medicine, does the research on ebola, marburg, etc., and it is located at 1440 canal street. click on the 'katrina' tab on google maps, and you can see the water level there.
i'm almost certain this is the location of the facility in question.

Tulane University Health Sciences Center: Tropical Medicine
[phone]
1440 Canal St
New Orleans, LA 70112
Tulane University: The Garry Laboratory Headed up by Dr. Robert F. Garry at the Tulane University School of Medicine, the Garry Lab conducts virology research centered on "retroviruses, autoimmunity and retroviruses in autoimmunity."

[Rex]

10. Great, ebola.

How wonderful! What a STUPID place to put a Bio-weapon lab!

[nookiemonster]

14. Wow, I agree.

Me thinks that perhaps a little more "inland" would be preferable.

God help us.

[mogster]

12. Here's a blog, or something like it

The original website is down, it appears. No wonder.

But I googled, and found this:

"September 2, 5 p.m.

Dear friends of Tulane,

Since my relocation to Houston, I have had more access to information about the situation in New Orleans. I was hopeful that recovery would soon progress. However, given the ongoing situation in the city, I am forced to make an extremely difficult decision – Tulane University cannot hold a fall semester on its campus.

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education.

Nine of the leading higher education associations, which represent hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, have developed a plan to accept Tulane students, as well as those from other institutions adversely affected by the hurricane, for the fall semester only. This coalition has set forth guidelines for temporary enrollment for the fall semester. Read the statement

Tulane University will accept credit for all courses with a passing grade from regionally accredited universities; such credit will be applied to a student's Tulane course of study. We encourage all Tulane students to enroll in courses that they might have enrolled in at Tulane, but equivalent or near equivalent courses will also count to degree progress.

Students enrolled in schools and colleges with accredited professional programs (for example: Business School, School of Social Work, Engineering School, and School of Architecture) should enroll in universities with programs that are also accredited."

http://www2.tulane.edu/

If the research location is destroyed, this might be serious.

On edit: typo/added comment.

[converted_democrat]

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