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BIOTECH WORKER AND PUBLIC SAFETY
 

Former Pfizer scientist, Becky McClain, went public about having been infected by a genetically engineered virus in 2002-2003 at the Pfizer lab where she worked.  In April 2010 a federal jury awarded McClain $1.37 million, ruling that the pharmaceutical giant had violated her free speech and whistle-blower protections.  McClain, an AHB Board member, now works to raise awareness about lab worker rights and public health and safety.  She is the recipient of the 2010 Nader Trust Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage. 


 
 
 
 
RECOMMENDED READING:
 
"A Roach in the Kitchen,"  Genewatch Interview with Becky McClain
"A Cruel and Unusual Corporation:  Becky McClain's Crusade Against Pfizer,"  Ralph Nader
"A Pfizer Whistle-Blower is Awarded $1.4 Million," New York Times
   
   


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/ARTICLES ON INJURED LAB WORKERS AND NEED FOR BIOTECH SAFETY REGULATIONS:
 
Same School, New Infection?  For the second time in two years, a University of Chicago researcher falls ill to a laboratory-acquired infection.

 
Lab Project Suspended at U of C After Researcher Gets Sick
 
A Synthetic Biology Lab in Berkeley
 
UCLA to Hold Grand Opening of Global Biolab
 
Comment on the Draft Revised Environmental Assessment for the
 
Information about Maryland Biolabs Scarce
 
Safety Rules Can't Keep Up with Biotech Industry
 
Fatal Laboratory-Acquired Infection With an Attenuated Yersinia pestis Strain—Chicago, Illinois, 2009, The Journal of the American Medical Association 
 
Biotech Awareness:  The Case of David Bell
 
Researchers Must Be Wary of Infections
 
Give Them and Inch:  Why Don't private biolabs like Pfizer's live up to the National Health Institute's guidelines?  Because they don't have to. By Michael Siciliano, GeneWatch, March-April 2010
 
SARS in the City by Lynn C. Klotz
 
   
 
 
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