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
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Reading this story, which is a prime example of being careless with the wrong thing, when off to the right...
christx30
(6,241 posts)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?
Hestia
(3,818 posts)The above incident is what has people scared...sheesh
http://www.jsonline.com/news/health/researchers-at-uw-lab-create-close-copy-of-spanish-flu-pandemic-virus-b99289977z1-262904971.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/11/crazy-dangerous-creation-deadly-airborne-flu-virus
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2014/jun/12/should-scientists-recreated-spanish-flu-poll
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/15/scientists-spanish-flu-lab
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)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.