There’s one thing that Terry Devitt, a spokesperson for the UW-Madison, wants to emphasize: “We’re one of 14 places. It’s speculative.”
Let’s speculate.
Already, the UW’s Kegonsa Research Facility near Stoughton has made the cut from 29 sites initially proposed for a new high-security biodefense lab devoted to deadly animal pathogens.
The proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility would study deadly foreign animal diseases like hoof and mouth and swine fever. Devitt says these are diseases that farmers “fret about all the time” because “they would devastate the ag economy.”