From Noah Schactman at WIRED’s Danger Room:

Better late than never, I suppose. For the last five years, some of us have argued that the government’s biodefense priorities are screwed up, massively.  Research into largely-theoretical bio threats has sucked up money from tackling real killers, like tuberculosis. In fact, the biggest threat may be from the proliferation of biodefense labs, packed with largely-untrained staffs; an accident or a malicious insider was more likely to cause serious damage than nearly any bioterrorist.

In the meantime, we’ve seen biolab workers infected in Texas and Boston; disease-ridden mice escape (twice), and a deadly flu strain accidentally shipped all over the country.