are you ready for the 12 monkeys scenario?
Might make a good movie ... have some looters break into the labs and get infected with a society killing bug ...
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:JwjVia1H9RgJ:www2.tulane.edu/article_news_details.cfm%3FArticleID%3D5541+Tulane+University+Biodefense&hl=en
ulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana is a major biomedical research center. Tulane operates BSL-3 (BioSafety Level 3) facilities in New Orleans and is a partner in both the Western Regional "Center of Excellence" in Biodefense (led by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston), and the Southeast Regional "Center of Excellence" (led by Duke University in Durham, NC). Both centers are funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
Tulane scientists are working with anthrax, plague, and other biological weapons agents.
The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC), located in Covington, LA, is a research facility housing 5,000 monkeys for biomedical studies. One of the first projects for the aerosol facility are pathogenesis studies involving spraying macaques with the biological weapons agent brucella. (Snip)