BU researchers finally get those Ebola and Marburg virus samples they've been wanting

BostonDog -- wrote "Budget cuts to NSF, NIH, etc and loosening EPA & USDA restrictions pose a much greater threat to the general public then some highly controlled, well guarded viruses in a university lab."

Do you bother to read your posts before you hit SEND

I'll grant you that if there were "meat axe" budget cuts to the USDA and the CDC that I might be concerned. Somewhat less so with respect to trimming the NIH budget and loosening of EPA and USDA regulations.

BUT:--NSF come-on
NSF is vital to the future of real science and ultimately our economy.
It can indeed can help fund things that a decade from now might revolutionize things.
e.g. in computer science and engineering:

COSMOS: Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and New York University.

COSMOS is partnering with New York City, Silicon Harlem, City College of New York, University of Arizona and IBM, to bring this advanced wireless test bed to life in New York City. The test bed will cover 1 square mile in a vibrant, densely-populated neighborhood in West Harlem. The technical focus of the COSMOS platform is on ultra-high-bandwidth and low-latency wireless communications, with tightly coupled edge computing, a type of cloud computing enabling data processing at the edge of the network. COSMOS will pursue millimeter-wave radio communications and dynamic optical switching technologies. This new wireless research platform will allow for experimentation at a scale that could not be achieved previously, thereby enabling new services and applications to benefit the entire community.

However, It is hard to imagine how cutting even the biggest of NSF's major initiatives such as the LIGO [gravitational wave astronomy], BICEP [searching for the signature of cosmic inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization] and ICECUBE [galactic and extra-galactic neutrino astronomy] can "pose a much greater threat to the general public then some highly controlled, well guarded viruses in a university lab"