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By Jennifer Couzin
ScienceNOW Daily News
6 September 2007
Faced with a damning list of a dozen violations in its biosafety labs, the president of Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station vowed today to correct the lapses, which range from unreported toxin exposures to improper protective gear. In a news conference, interim president Edward Davis also noted that any school subjected to the same scrutiny as TAMU "would probably have findings" revealing biosafety violations. 

In late July, 17 officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, descended onto the TAMU campus to assess whether the school was complying with regulations that govern "select agents," toxins, such as Ebola and monkeypox, that are considered potential bioweapons and whose use is strictly controlled by the U.S. government. The site visit came just 4 months after CDC officials had visited the campus and found no serious problems. But they decided to take a second look after biosafety activist Edward Hammond obtained documents showing that a TAMU student had been exposed to the brucella bacteria, a select agent, in 2006, and that the school had kept the case quiet for a year, prompting CDC to call a halt to TAMU's research on select agents (ScienceNOW, 2 July). Hammond heads the Sunshine Project in Austin, Texas, a nonprofit watchdog that monitors research on potential bioweapons.
 
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1.          damning
 毀滅的;咒罵的
 
2.          violations
違反;違背;違犯
 
3.          vowed
誓,誓言,誓約
 
4.          lapses
失檢;背離
 
5.          gear
工具;設備,裝置;
 
6.          interim
過渡期間
 
7.          descended
出身於...的
 
8.          complying
順從,遵從[
 
9.          monkeypox
10.      strictly
嚴厲地;嚴格地;嚴密地
 
11.      brucella
布魯氏桿菌病
 
12.      nonprofit
非營利的
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