BU's Leaky Biolabs

Via ProMED-mail: the Boston Globe reports on another BU researcher who accidentally brought his work home with him.

The genetic tests, conducted at the state laboratory in Jamaica Plain, compared a blood sample from the researcher with bacterial matter recovered from the lab where he was working on BU’s South End campus. “The bottom line,’’ said Dr. Anita Barry, top disease tracker at the Boston Public Health Commission, “is they matched.’’
The analysis erased any doubt about what caused the researcher to become sick last month and intensified investigations into precisely how he was exposed to a germ known as Neisseria meningitidis, which can cause meningitis.
The city’s biological lab safety division will review safety procedures in BU’s medical labs, to ensure that the school is doing everything possible to minimize researchers’ exposure to pathogens, Barry said.

I thought they did that last time.

PlagueBlog recommends moving to the suburbs before the new BU biolab opens downtown. And by "suburbs" I mean Maine.