Breaking: Bubonic plague samples reported stolen from a lab in Lubbock, Texas

The Dallas Morning News ^ | January 15, 2003 | The Dallas Morning News Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

BREAKING NEWS

Bubonic plague samples reported stolen from a lab in Lubbock. Details to come.

[MeekOneGOP]

Breaking News on the Dallas Morning News. I'll post link/text when they put the article up...

[dirtboy]

Heck, they can get plague from any prairie dog town in New Mexico...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Why do this when they can catch some ground squirrels in New Mexico?

[Tijeras_Slim]

HEY!

[Aracelis]

Some more "oh, that's just great" news.

[MeekOneGOP]

Plague samples reported taken from Texas Tech

01/15/2003

Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas - Authorities on Wednesday were looking into the apparent theft of samples of bubonic plague from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

A report was made late Tuesday to the Tech police and city officials in Lubbock were preparing a statement Wednesday morning, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported on its online edition.

Information on the precise number of vials reportedly taken was not available.

Bubonic plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. People usually get it from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal.

The disease is treatable with antibiotics.

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/tsw/stories/011503dnnatplague.26317654.html

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this!

Everything going on in the world like this and we have the RATs obstructing the Senate to try and get their way with Committes!

[blackdog]

Suggestion to CDC....

WalMart has those accuscan theft detectors that work quite well. Time to start using those labels on Anthrax, Smallpox, Junta, Bubonic, Aids, Ebola, West Nile, and whatever other little nasties your inventory control system cannot prevent from being pilfered as a weapon to kill me!

[dfwgator]

Did somebody piss off Bobby Knight?

[BlessedAmerican]

Good Grief! Why on earth would TX Tech have plague in their possession? Here we are concerned about Iraq and some college has lax security right here in America. Wonder how many other minimum security storage areas there are??? We need to tighten our own belts here!

[Aracelis]

WalMart has those accuscan theft detectors that work quite well. Time to start using those labels on Anthrax, Smallpox, Junta, Bubonic, Aids, Ebola, West Nile, and whatever other little nasties your inventory control system cannot prevent from being pilfered as a weapon to kill me!

You know, that's a pretty good idea. Why aren't labs using a system like this to foil thieves? The cost can't be all that much or WalMart wouldn't be using the system.

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[Darksheare]

Are you sure those are prairie dogs in that prairie dog town?

[luckystarmom]

It's a disease that is common among rodents. It's not a big deal anymore since we have antibiotics.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Let's hope this is unreliable as the 5 terrorists that were reported to sneak through Canada.

[TheLurkerX]

They should use some sort of magnetic labeling to heat bond a bar code to the vials for whatever is in them, and that way they couldn't be removed easily either.

[mhking]

If you need me, I'll be in the shower...

[cherry]

and for some reason my dtr is bound and determined to go to TTU even though we live 1800 miles away....she is just enamored with Texas...

I am sure it has nothing to do with her wanting to get away from us (as far as she can!!..lol)

[Orangedog]

WalMart has those accuscan theft detectors that work quite well.

Easilly defeated. Anyone sharp enough to have access to and knowledge of these labs could overcome any similar security device. China-mart catches the garden variety, trailer park style shoplifters with that system.

[rs79bm]

I love this. We know they were stolen yet we cannot prevent them from being stolen in the first place. These things never cease to amaze me.