Dangerous Accident at RML

On May 7, 2012 the Rocky Mountain Labs held a community meeting. During the presentation the Biosafety manager Dr. Nancy Ho described an accident that the NIH facility was required to report to the US Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.

The accident was more than preventable, it should have never happened.

Dr. Nancy Ho, Biosafety manager at NIH Rocky Mountain Labs.

In fact, the Biosafety manager must be removed from her position. As this "professional" and others on her team did not catch the mistake of improper use of lab equipment--it is a BIG embarrassment to the National Institutes of Health at Rocky Mountain Labs.

If you look closely the blue and white box contain test tubes, and the item on the top, a PIPETTE was the culprit of the infectious agent breakage at a level 3 biosafety lab at RML Hamilton MT. The facility is a NIAID facility from the National Institutes of Health.

Proper use of a Pipette at a NIH facility

This photo NOT taken at RML Hamilton, MT

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picture/schematic of a typical laboratory "transfer pipette"

meaning transfer of liquids--not stabbing any frozen material.

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A glass pipette broke off as a researcher was attempting to stab, scrape or otherwise puncture a frozen layer covering the infectious agent for storage. Dr. Nancy Ho and her biosafety team felt stabbing infectious agents with 60% mortality rates was fine to continue, AFTER an accident happened. It should be noted that pipettes are used to transfer liquids, and have a tapered end like a eye-dropper, and would be a weak point on the device. As most High School students would understand using a pipette on non-liquids would be a problem, the top US researchers (with Ph'D degrees), and the top NIH biosafety people at NIH, CDC did not.

Researcher at Rocky Mountain Labs

RML Photo

Here is a video I shot on the sound problem, which Marshall Bloom and PHS officer Kelly Hudson committed scientific fraud to endanger, annoy US citizens who reside close to the NIH NIAID biosafety level 4 lab. It is only a matter of time when the directors of the facility disregard health and safety, and allow a dangerous, and potentially lethal procedure to continue at RML.

Rocky Mountain Labs, Hamilton Montana

a NIH NIAID facility

Knowingly and un-knowingly endangering Americans

As scientific procedures are conducted at the Rocky Mountain Labs that are so dangerous and so obvious, there is little to do but evacuate the area, and wonder when the accident that will kill federal employees will happen. As RML has the world expert on Ebola, and no federal protection via fire safety and hazardous material safety, the NIH has decided to be grossly negligent with respect to protection of Americans and federal employees.

A red-tag for the NIH facility in Hamilton, MT      

 

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The Rocky Mountain lab gets a stop work order--for allowing a practice so unsafe, so seemingly obvious: using a tapered glass pipette as a stabbing device with infectious agents is beyond insane. The decision by biosafety "experts" to continue this practice is criminal negligence.

There is no hope for NIH, and the Rocky Mountain Labs. As low frequency noise is thrust onto area residents, and incompetent safety managers ok the continuance of potentially fatal accidents, and work on materials without a cure (infectious agents) there is an expectation that a Fukashima type accident will occur in Hamilton, MT.

Marshall Bloom at the May 7, 2012 meeting 

Resignation request of NIH NIAID RML Marshall Bloom

http://www.whistleblowermedia.com/2012/05/open-letter-to-marshall-bloom-nih.html

With biosafety "professionals" like Dr. Nancy Ho and Marshall Bloom overseeing the facility there is NO assurance that a significant accident with death will not occur in Hamilton MT.

Low Frequency noise is a critical health concern - Rocky Mountain Lab Dangerous to YOUR Health...

"Dear RML,

The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes that low frequency noise (LFN) should be kept below 30 dbA (see below), and the A weighted range is inappropriate to measure LFR; a NOISE-CON 2004 paper calls "A" weighted sound data invalid for LFN. The sound reading in my front yard was 43 dbA on February 2, 2011 between 1400 and 1430 hrs per verbal transference from Montana Acoustics PC.

The WHO also felt Low Frequency noise is a critical health concern (again see below).

Proximity residents of RML in Hamilton, MT are sleep deprived, show signs of stress, anxiety, signs of LFN long term exposure; a NOISE-CON 2004 study indicates LFN increases the rate of depression by 25%.

Ravalli County ranks #5 of 2000 counties in the United States for suicide, twice the national average. Four detainees in the Ravalli County Jail took their own lives (a mental health indicator) in 2005. Should RML increase this indicator by a continued LFN signature above WHO levels as a federal agency of the United States?

The annoyance is more than a mere annoyance, per published research on low frequency noise but a major health concern, and enjoyment of life factor [to which I am not coming close to explaining Low Frequency Noise health effects].

Physiologically, systolic heart rate, blood pressure, stress, and heart disease increases with long term exposure to LFN.

The World Health Organization is one of the bodies which recognizes the
special place of low frequency noise as an environmental problem. Its
publication on Community Noise (Berglund et al., 2000) makes a number of
references to low frequency noise, some of which are as follows:

• " It should be noted that low frequency noise, for example, from
ventilation systems can disturb rest and sleep even at low sound levels" (happening now in Hamilton, MT surrounding RML)

• "For noise with a large proportion of low frequency sounds a still lower
guideline (than 30dBA) is recommended"

• " When prominent low frequency components are present, noise
measures based on A-weighting are inappropriate"

• "Since A-weighting underestimates the sound pressure level of noise with
low frequency components, a better assessment of health effects would
be to use C-weighting" [e.g. SPREADBURY DATA attached: 3 spreadsheets of RML sound data]

• "It should be noted that a large proportion of low frequency components
in a noise [e.g. RML sources] may increase considerably the adverse effects on health"

• "The evidence on low frequency noise is sufficiently strong to warrant
immediate concern" (other than the deception of 2/2/11 of misprepresenting actual sound levels, or appropiate measurement)

source of WHO data: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/noise/research/lowfrequency/documents/lowfreqnoise.pdf

Perhaps the National Institutes of Health can be informed from the World Health Organization (WHO).

" I am open to any research with more impact than the WHO, the NOISE-CON conference which indicates the A weighted data for industrial low frequency sound (<500 Hz) is not appropriate. To date, I have not found any, including the manual for my sound meter. Only one data point I have taken was at the published threshold 55dbc 2/2/11(day RML purposely reduced noise signature when Montana Acoustics measured 2/2/11 at RML during daylight hours), the rest have been well above the published threshold of 50db (day) and 55db (night) using a C weighted scale (per WHO). Maximum value 77dbC 150 yrds. NW of the RML IRF (Bio-level 4 facility) in the 6th St. cul de sac.

I look forward to the second set of data, frequency signature, point source magnitude from Montana Acoustics 2/2/11 survey at RML. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) should cover this request.

A data set showing RML noise signature being reduced (by approximately 10db) for sound data collection is attached as "RML Sound 2/2/11 DAY".

The observation that steam was not rising from the facility in the afternoon of the 2/2/11 sound recording data indicates a shutdown of non-essential industrial equipment, reflected in the raw data, independent observers (not a perception). The "night" data from this morning show readings above 50 dbC prior to 7AM today ["RML SOUND 2/3/11 NIGHT"].

Got a Tip on Rocky Mountain Lab ?

Crystal@CrystalCox.com

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In a letter dated March 15, 2011 the Rocky Mountain Lab stated that they are standing behind this fradulent data.  A message to US Rep. Rehberg office said the same thing, referred to the March 15, 2011 letter.  Fradulent science standing together.  Will they send Hamilton MT residents on a cruise after they finish a new building, so the sound testing will be done while we are out drinking umbrella drinks?