Dallas Morning News, Editorial, July 6, 2007 When a lawyer infected with tuberculosis boarded a trans-Atlantic flight, the entire country cried foul. Andrew Speaker's ill-advised travels sparked an international incident and relegated him to the role of reckless enemy of public health. But when Texas A&M failed to report researchers' exposure to biological weapons agents, the public collectively shrugged. Revelations that the university ignored protocols for reporting these illnesses spurred a swift rebuke from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has suspended Texas A&M's federally sanctioned research on dangerous infectious diseases. But outside the federal government, response has been muted.That's a frightening prospect in Texas, a national leader in bioweapons research. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston studies some of the world's most dangerous biological agents. Texas A&M, UT Southwestern, Texas Tech and the University of Texas Health Science Centers all research agents that could cause serious diseases.