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Apparent Suicide by Cyanide Causes Security Concerns
A Northeastern U lab tech lost her job & then was found dead in her Milford, MA apartment yesterday morning with a plastic bag of what is thought to be cyanide.

Neil Livingston, a DC terrorism expert, said, "If she'd been a bad guy and gotten hold of a significant amount of cyanide . . . who knows?" "Cyanide is a good weapon of assassination or for killing a small number of people."

Police are checking Northeastern's records to see if she obtained the material there.

"There isn't adequate screening of who has access to chemicals or biological weapons," Livingstone said. "They're reluctant because of 'academic freedom.' "
Umm, no, we academic biology types are pretty aware indeed. Controls are sometimes lax just because of incompetence or divided attention, but I guarantee you everyone in the labs knows what cyanide can do. And retrovirus ...

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-09-14
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