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More deadly pathogens, toxins found improperly stored in NIH and FDA labs
By Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun September 5 at 2:52 PM
Workers scouring government laboratories in the wake of the July discovery of smallpox have found half a dozen more improperly stored substances ? including the deadly toxin ricin and the bacteria that cause plague.
On Friday, officials at the National Institutes of Health said the search on its sprawling Bethesda campus had turned up five different misplaced biological materials in recent weeks. All of them are considered so dangerous ? they are known as ?select agents? ? that the federal government requires them to be stored in specially secured facilities. But in these cases, the vials were in regular labs, often part of collections of samples that date back decades...
More deadly pathogens, toxins found improperly stored in NIH and FDA labs
By Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun September 5 at 2:52 PM
Workers scouring government laboratories in the wake of the July discovery of smallpox have found half a dozen more improperly stored substances ? including the deadly toxin ricin and the bacteria that cause plague.
On Friday, officials at the National Institutes of Health said the search on its sprawling Bethesda campus had turned up five different misplaced biological materials in recent weeks. All of them are considered so dangerous ? they are known as ?select agents? ? that the federal government requires them to be stored in specially secured facilities. But in these cases, the vials were in regular labs, often part of collections of samples that date back decades...