Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-pentagon-accidentally-fedexed-live-anthrax-samples-to-labs?
On Wednesday, the Pentagon admitted that it had accidently sent out live anthrax samples to private and government laboratories in nine US states, and to a US military base in South Korea.
The mix-up apparently occurred as a Department of Defense lab in Dugway, Utah, intended to send out dead samples, but mistakenly shipped out lives one instead.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Wednesday that there was both “no known risk to the general public”
:10: Live anthrax through the post poses "no known risk" I beg to differ.
This current incident is similar to a few other mishaps. In March 2014, the CDI shipped out contaminated bird flu samples to an external lab, and in June 2014 as many as 75 workers at the CDC were exposed to anthrax bacteria when researchers at the biosecurity laboratory failed to follow protocol and inactivate the bacteria. In December 2014, the CDC also mistakenly exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, when samples thought dead were sent from one lab to another down the hall.
Just how many outbreaks have been due to "accidental" release, Aids?Ebola? Bird Flu?
These people are playing with life on earth, how long before we get a real pandemic?
On Wednesday, the Pentagon admitted that it had accidently sent out live anthrax samples to private and government laboratories in nine US states, and to a US military base in South Korea.
The mix-up apparently occurred as a Department of Defense lab in Dugway, Utah, intended to send out dead samples, but mistakenly shipped out lives one instead.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Wednesday that there was both “no known risk to the general public”
:10: Live anthrax through the post poses "no known risk" I beg to differ.
This current incident is similar to a few other mishaps. In March 2014, the CDI shipped out contaminated bird flu samples to an external lab, and in June 2014 as many as 75 workers at the CDC were exposed to anthrax bacteria when researchers at the biosecurity laboratory failed to follow protocol and inactivate the bacteria. In December 2014, the CDC also mistakenly exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, when samples thought dead were sent from one lab to another down the hall.
Just how many outbreaks have been due to "accidental" release, Aids?Ebola? Bird Flu?
These people are playing with life on earth, how long before we get a real pandemic?
