As stated earlier, this facility stores some of the world's scariest livestock diseases, some of which have never been seen on this continent.

Shortly after posting that blog I received e-mails from supporters of the facility’s move assuring me that there would be strict security taken at this facility.

Well, recently, South Korea's equivalent disease research facility somehow goofed and hoof-and-mouth got loose in that country. In fact, according to the International Society for Infectious Diseases, this facility has had 16 outbreaks since Jan. 1.

Now I'll make a big presumption here in saying that the new U.S. research facility would not have those kinds of outbreaks in four months time. In fact it's had, thankfully, just one known outbreak in its 50-year history -- hoof-and-mouth in 1978 -- which was quickly contained mostly because it's situated on an island.

But if over the next 50 years, if this facility is built in Kansas, it has just one outbreak, such as has just occurred in South Korea, it's going to get somebody's livestock, and probably pets and wildlife as well.

According to the ISID, a total of 49,000 South Korean animals were ordered to be culled as a result of this outbreak so far. Now imagine, even at the South Korean facility quarantine and decontamination protocols are more stringent than those on the average farm.

H-m-m-m. You know the same will apply in this country if the Kansas site has a breach. I urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to rethink and stop this move of the infectious disease facility from an island in the Atlantic to a college campus in the Midwest.

Have a good week.