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Dead letter office: ancient smallpox sample turns up in old US lab
First we lose files now its vials...
Dead letter office: ancient smallpox sample turns up in old US lab
It's a scene reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark's climax: something very dangerous is put in storage by a government agency, and forgotten. America's Center for Disease Control and Prevention is working to hose down fears about its control of stockpiles, following the startling discovery of 1950s-era smallpox samples in a cardboard box.
The discovery was first made on July 1, when the National Institutes of Health told the CDC's Division of Select Agents and Toxins that its employees had found the box, containing vials labelled “variola” (the scientific name of smallpox). The box was in “an unused portion of a storage room” in an FDA lab in the NIH's Bethseda campus, the CDC says.
The discovery was first made on July 1, when the National Institutes of Health told the CDC's Division of Select Agents and Toxins that its employees had found the box, containing vials labelled “variola” (the scientific name of smallpox). The box was in “an unused portion of a storage room” in an FDA lab in the NIH's Bethseda campus, the CDC says.
First we lose files now its vials...
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