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Scary! This clinic was injecting small pox vaccine into cancer patients! #irresponsible !!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...llpox-vaccine-stem-cell-cancer-clinic-n796681


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This is far from the first time there has been irresponsibilities regarding the small pox virus...

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CDC: Smallpox found in NIH storage room is alive

At least two of the vials employees at the National Institutes of Health found in an unused storage room earlier this month contain viable samples of the deadly smallpox virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
Employees found six forgotten vials when they were preparing to move a lab from the Food and Drug Administration's Bethesda, Maryland, campus to a different location. The laboratory had been used by the NIH but was transferred to the FDA in 1972.

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FDA found more than smallpox vials in storage room

By Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun July 16, 2014Loaded in 1.65 seconds
Federal officials found more than just long-forgotten smallpox samples recently in a storage room on the National Institutes for Health campus in Bethesda, Md. The discovery included 12 boxes and 327 vials holding an array of pathogens, including the virus behind the tropical disease dengue and the bacteria that can cause spotted fever, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the lab in question.

“The fact that these materials were not discovered until now is unacceptable,” Karen Midthun, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), told reporters Wednesday. “We take this matter very seriously, and we’re working to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.”

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And more irresponsibility...

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CDC says about 75 scientists may have been exposed to anthrax

By Lena H. Sun June 19, 2014Loaded in 0.83 seconds

About 75 scientists working at federal government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria and are being offered treatment to prevent infection, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement Thursday.

The potential exposure took place after researchers failed to follow adequate protection procedures to inactivate anthrax samples at one CDC lab in Atlanta before transferring them to three other CDC labs not equipped to handle live anthrax bacteria, the statement said. Workers at those three labs, believing the samples were inactivated, were not wearing adequate personal protective equipment while handling the material.

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