Forgotten Vials of Smallpox Found
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Forgotten Vials of Smallpox Found
Employees at the National Institutes of Health recently discovered some old vials of smallpox, the deadly until it was considered eradicated in 1980. The vials appear to date back to the 1950s and were discovered in an unused part of a storeroom at a Food and Drug Administration lab in Bethesda, Maryland. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there is no evidence any of the vials were breached, nor were any of lab workers exposed to the virus.