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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:57 PM Jun 2014

Anthrax Exposure A Risk For As Many As 75 US Scientists, CDC Says

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Source: Reuters/Guardian

Scientists at laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after researchers failed to follow procedure

Reuters
theguardian.com, Thursday 19 June 2014 15.43 EDT

As many as 75 scientists working in US federal government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria and are being offered treatment to prevent infection, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

The potential exposure occurred after researchers working in a high-level biosecurity laboratory at the agency's Atlanta campus failed to follow proper procedures to inactivate the bacteria. They then transferred the samples, which may have contained live bacteria, to lower-security CDC labs not equipped to handle live anthrax.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/anthrax-exposed-scientists-cdc-atlanta-live-bacteria

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Anthrax Exposure A Risk For As Many As 75 US Scientists, CDC Says (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2014 OP
I love how software interprets what to show you in ads.. jtuck004 Jun 2014 #1
There was a story a few years ago christx30 Jun 2014 #2
And people wonder over the freak-out of this very thing happening at the U of Wi & Spanish Flu Hestia Jun 2014 #3
You can see how a Stephen King scenario like "The Stand" would work out. Rozlee Jun 2014 #4
 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
1. I love how software interprets what to show you in ads..
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 04:09 PM
Jun 2014

Reading this story, which is a prime example of being careless with the wrong thing, when off to the right...




christx30

(6,241 posts)
2. There was a story a few years ago
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 04:33 PM
Jun 2014

about an honor killing in a Muslim community over in Africa or Asia. The ad at the bottom was for a Muslim dating site. Maybe code words are the wrong way to go?

Rozlee

(2,529 posts)
4. You can see how a Stephen King scenario like "The Stand" would work out.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:39 PM
Jun 2014

And I'll pass with being one of the 1% who survive. They'll probably figure some way to make the 99% who die reanimate as flesh eaters.

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