Tuesday 8 July 2014

US CDC says finds smallpox vials from 1950s in FDA storage room

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday they found smallpox vials from the 1950s in a Food and Drug Administration storage building in Bethesda, Maryland, and transferred them to the CDC's high-containment laboratory in Atlanta on July 7. The CDC said there is no evidence that the vials have been breached, and biosafety officials have so far not found any evidence of risk to lab workers or the public. The mishandling of smallpox, a highly infectious agent, follows the CDC's recent mishap in which the agency believed it may have transferred live anthrax samples to a CDC lab that was not equipped to handle them, potentially exposing dozens of employees to the pathogen. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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