On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > What happens when you fly a low-fuel high speed 727 into a biosafety > level 4 containment facility?
It will be reduced to rubble. Most of those inside will get killed. Sterile containments will be breached. Negligible amounts of pathogens will be released. There's a low probability it will result in those pathogens actually infecting people in the vicinity (I presume the firefighters will be instructed accordingly). The probability of an actual runaway infection is indistinguishable from zero -- it's a research facility, not munition depot. > Probable answer: not in the threat model considered during design, so it > can't happen.
