New CDC Lab to House Five Potential Bioterror Agents

U.S. officials broke ground on Thursday for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vector-Borne Disease Laboratory in Colorado, the Denver Post reported.

Part of a $1 billion effort to modernize CDC facilities, the new complex in Fort Collins is expected to be completed by 2006, according to CDC head Julie Gerberding

A set of older facilities in Fort Collins houses five potential biological weapons that are to be transferred to the new facility: plague, tularemia and the Venezuelan, western and eastern equine encephalitis viruses (Karen Auge, Denver Post, Aug. 13).

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