Feb 14, 2012 - 12:02 pm
From the Lincoln Journal Star:
UNL veterinary lab at risk
A Styrofoam carton, about 12 by 12 inches, sits on an ordinary schoolroom table in the entrance hall of the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
What, exactly, is in this box is anybody’s guess.
Inside might be a needle-drawn sample of a tumor taken from someone’s pet golden retriever in Lincoln or Omaha. It might hold a portion of a pig’s gut submitted by a northeast Nebraska veterinarian seeking to identify the virus attacking his client’s herd. It could contain muscle tissue taken from a mustang felled by over-exertion during a federal roundup of wild horses in Nevada.
“Salmonella, circovirus, tularemia, anthrax,” lab director Alan Doster said. “It’s like Christmas. We don’t know what’s going on in that box.”
The delivery of that mysterious and potentially dangerous box through a public entrance into an open hallway is an example of the things accreditors say need to be changed at the laboratory, located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus. The accreditors’ concerns, in turn, have led UNL officials to approach state lawmakers with a request for money to build a new lab …
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