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A federal laboratory in Kansas that would study diseases that could be used as biological weapons would receive $40 million under President Barack Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 8, 2009).
The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility is expected to supplant an outdated animal disease research laboratory at Plum Island, N.Y. The Kansas site would study foot-and-mouth and other potentially threatening animal and plantl diseases when it opens.
The facility received $32 million in the present budget, largely for design and planning operations.
Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson said the laboratory was good for the local economy and also critical to national security interests (John Milburn, Associated Press/KOAM TV, Feb. 2).