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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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