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| Subject: US statist disease labs 'made dangerous pathogen transport errors' Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:30 am | |
| US government infectious disease labs mishandled dangerous pathogens five times in the last decade, according to a health agency report.
This year alone, workers mishandled samples of anthrax and the highly-infectious H5N1 avian flu.
In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has closed the two labs involved.
The agency has also temporarily barred high-security labs from transporting dangerous pathogens.
There have been no reported infections from previous cases, and no-one potentially exposed to anthrax has shown signs of illness, CDC officials said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28268640#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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