This is where the anthrax is kept.
Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana and a delegation of the Pentagon visited the laboratories officials on Wednesday for the first stop on a three nation tour of East Africa to assess the next generation of American security concerns.
The team visited Uganda Virus Research Institute, where the Ebola and Marburg viruses taken to study and in a room in a regular refrigerator at the bottom of the composite kept say "restricted access", sind.Warnzeichen but the doctors say that hardly means area is secure.
The laboratories are in Entebbe, a warm and sleepy town on the shore of Lake of Victoria, part of what the delegation of the forefront of the fight to counter terrorist threats around the world called.
""We need laboratories in East Africa the endangered public health security, to strengthen", said Andrew C. Weber, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for nuclear and chemical and biological defense programs." "Preventing terrorist acquisition of dangerous pathogens which is seed material for biological weapons is a security imperative."
The rise of the Shabab, the powerful Islamist insurgent group, responsible for the alleged deadly suicide bombings in Uganda as crowds gathered to the final of the football World Cup to see has focused attention to East Africa as boundary in American security interests.
In 2004, Congress extended the mandate of the Nunn-Lugar program that originally focused on the dismantling of warheads in former Soviet States, is on geographic regions like this One.Jetzt, Mr. Lugar's to take trip the delegation to Uganda, Burundi and then Kenya.
Uganda, a long-standing military ally of the United States, possibly the most vibrant illustration Bedenken.Warm, damp and at the equator, Uganda is a biological Petri dish.Anthrax has in recent years hundreds of hippos killed. in 2008 died a Dutch tourists from Marburg disease after visiting a cave in a national park.Outbreak of Ebola killed in 2007 more than 20 people.
This is from the substance "hot zone" and "outbreak" genre, which dramatized the dangers of viral outbreaks haben.Aber that underlying threat American to fight officials is that lax security to the poorly financed Labs, collect, and these diseases to study pose a risk of bioterrorism.
Ugandan officials say the country's push to create new Federal districts, part of what delivers the Government in the country, to decentralize the bureaucracy calls as thin spread disease can make weeks samples to a laboratory, or never get it, take.
"" It to report new cases, makes it difficult ", said Dr. Nicholas Kauta, a Commissioner at the Ministry of agriculture."We don't know what is around us."
The laboratories of the Department of agriculture built window, broke in the 1920s and a chain link fence around the compound gerissen.Laut the Commissioner, it used, over 200 technical staff, but now there are only a doctor showed the anthrax lab sechs.In like a cell phone camera placed above a microscope to use bacteria, study a demonstration of the lack of appropriate equipment.
"These are screaming for help that the USA is eager to offer," said Mr Lugar.
To the Uganda Virus Research Institute there are State-of-the-art facilities lead, by the Centers for disease control and prevention, an American Agency are deadly agents including Ebola, but not at all davon.Die in a less infectious diseases such as influenza held handle provided for space on the ground floor.
"" This is the end state,"Lieutenant-Colonel Jay Hall of the Defense threat reduction Agency, the disease said agency control laboratories upstairs noted.""This is where we want to get all other labs."
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