Sentences with phrase «smallpox vials»
Last week, two more problems came to light: a recent CDC shipment of flu samples contaminated with the deadly H5N1 avian influenza and the discovery of smallpox vials from 1954 in a government lab at the National Institutes of Health.
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«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.
The news comes after the discovery of improperly stored smallpox vials in July
Not exact matches
«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.
, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.
The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.
According to this 2009 article by the late bioweapons researcher Jonathan Tucker, after most smallpox stocks were shifted to the two central repositories, «[a] few scientific research centers also reported finding and destroying vials containing the smallpox virus that had been retained inadvertently in laboratory freezers, sparking fears that other poorly secured samples might exist that could fall into the hands of terrorists.»
In the months that followed, the Food and Drug Administration disclosed the discovery of decades - old vials of smallpox in a storage closet, while a U.S. Army lab erroneously shipped live anthrax to nearly 200 labs worldwide.
On July 1 six - decade - old vials of smallpox virus that had been tucked away in a cold room were discovered at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration laboratory on the NIH campus.
Frieden announced today that their testing has revealed that smallpox in at least two of the vials was alive and has been successfully grown in the lab — underscoring that smallpox is viable for decades.
The finds came as part of a sweep for select agents at NIH and other federal agencies launched after six vials of live smallpox dated 1954 were found in July in a cold storage room in an FDA lab on the NIH campus.