Oh look what we found in the store cupboard

[BrilloPad]

I hope they have the Ebola safe.

[Uncle Albert]

WTF??

Dead letter office: ancient smallpox sample turns up in old US lab





First we lose files now its vials...

I expect that you'll find the vials are for use on those who question the disappearance of the files.

[vetran]

WTF??

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.

First we lose files now its vials...