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The Diane Thompson case
Location: St. Paul Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Date:October 1996
Incident type: Theft/use by insider
Agent(s): Shigella dysenteriae (bacteria causing dysentery)
Perpetrator: Laboratory technician, Diane Thompson
Risk scenarios
1) Biosecurity risks generally viewed as longer-term or secondary relative to biosafety
Bio-risks: key trends
2) ‘Biosafety’ more familiar than ‘biosecurity’
3) Interest in more active approaches on bioterrorism/agroterrorism
4) ‘Insider threat’ is viewed as worrisome
5) Veterinary and agricultural facilities - lower safety and security awareness
Bio-risks: key trends (2)
6) Regional biosafety and biosecurity champions (train the trainer, university programs)
7) Biomedical waste is a frequent concern
8) Detection capacities (labs and borders)
9) Emergency coordination
� Expanding industrial and agricultural applications of biotechnology
� E.g. genetically modified organism (GMO) crops
Potential impacts:
• Unintended consequences
• Health and environmental risks
Example 1: Advances in
Biotechnology - GMOs
� Growing concerns about possible misuse of scientific research
� E.g. vaccine research on pathogen gain of function
� Availability on Internet
Potential impact:
Human, environmental and agricultural risks
Example 2: Dual-use research of
concern
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