Our Mississippi governor Haley Barbour says he is going to protest the decision by the Center for Animal Disease and Research to relocate their facility from Plum Island New York to Manhattan Kansas.

Flora Mississippi was in the running for this new research center. Barbour was all for it--jobs jobs, jobs was the mantra. I bet if some facility wanted to bring the E-Bola
virus here, the most deadly virus known, the guv would be all for it, even if it meant only five jobs for locals.

At Manhattan Kansas the research facility will be built in or near a university which is why they "won" the honor of having deadly animal disease organisms being studied there.
The locals were given no guarantee that organisms would not escape--there have been several occasions of this disaster happening at Plum Island. Why not just build a bigger better facility at Plum Island instead of taking a chance of catastrophe in mid America?

susil