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That Hurricane Harvey left tens of thousands of Texas residents without shelter, of course, sadly, but the “American tragedy” may go beyond the US and spread to the whole world.
The fact is that a hurricane has captured the island Galveston, where the biological laboratory of the medical University of Texas Department – Deadly Crammed Building dangerous viruses, germs and bacteria, such as avian flu, West Nile encephalitis, SARS and others, perhaps even more scary and terrible, about which journalists are simply are silent.
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Due to the flood, communication with the island was interrupted. Of course, the laboratory is a modern building with basements in the depths thirty meters, that is, a structure capable of withstanding, according to the assurances of the creators of this facility, a hurricane of the fifth category in Saffir – Simpson scale, and Harvey only reached fourth categories. However, there is a danger that due to interruptions electricity will drop pressure in the blocks in which dangerous viruses and bacteria, and this can lead to a real tragedy. AND although the building has autonomous power supply, but only it also requires fuel, which today does not bring to the island seems possible.
Environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn openly voiced a sober thought that doesn’t understand the people of Texas who agree to create such a dangerous laboratory in such an unreliable place – on Galveston Island, but then no one listened to it. And now Texas authorities are in suspense: than all this will end? One can only hope that another stupidity Americans will not lead to a new world catastrophe (as it was with bacterium “Cynthia”), by the way, everything happens again, as if in the damned gulf region …
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Island Viruses
