Mary Wilson
Well-known member
February 7, 2025 | 4:00 am
by Alison Young
The mistake happened in an instant.
Inside one of the biosafety level 4 labs at the Galveston National Laboratory – where scientists wear full-body moonsuit-like gear as they study some of the world’s most dangerous microbes – a lab worker was uncapping a needle.
The worker had just been handling a guinea pig that was infected with Chapare virus, which has caused deadly outbreaks of a hemorrhagic fever disease in Bolivia and for which there is no treatment other than fluids and supportive care.
As the lab worker uncapped the new needle, it accidentally plunged through their layered gloves and into their finger.
The mishap last August is one of three incidents last year where workers were potentially exposed to infectious pathogens inside research labs at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, according to an annual biosafety incident summary lab officials released this week. ...
https://houstonlanding.org/galvesto...ially-exposed-workers-to-infectious-diseases/
by Alison Young
The mistake happened in an instant.
Inside one of the biosafety level 4 labs at the Galveston National Laboratory – where scientists wear full-body moonsuit-like gear as they study some of the world’s most dangerous microbes – a lab worker was uncapping a needle.
The worker had just been handling a guinea pig that was infected with Chapare virus, which has caused deadly outbreaks of a hemorrhagic fever disease in Bolivia and for which there is no treatment other than fluids and supportive care.
As the lab worker uncapped the new needle, it accidentally plunged through their layered gloves and into their finger.
The mishap last August is one of three incidents last year where workers were potentially exposed to infectious pathogens inside research labs at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, according to an annual biosafety incident summary lab officials released this week. ...
https://houstonlanding.org/galvesto...ially-exposed-workers-to-infectious-diseases/