From USAT: … CDC has not responded to USA TODAY’s requests, under the Freedom of Information Act, filed in June 2012, for records involving lab safety and security incidents at the lab complex. The latest set of “restricted” inspector general audits covered six federal entities conducting research on potential bioterror germs. Additional audits looked at…
I am posting the entire Reuters story below. Is it funny, pathetic, or both? CDC Director Tom Frieden promised Congress to appoint a senior official to oversee lab security in a 2012 letter responding to a Congressional inquiry. Asked about this person at the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Hearing on Wednesday (at…
Not to put too fine a point on it, but today’s Reuters story has even more bad news on safety at our highest containment labs: According to a 2012 report by CDC scientists, there were 16 incidents of lost or escaped microbes from select-agent labs in 2004, meaning everything from misplaced samples to an infected…
The WaPo has published the full text of the CDC report on its anthrax mishap last month, with mention of a number of other, almost identical mishaps…one even from the same lab… in which highly virulent, live bacteria, including anthrax, H5N1 avian flu and Clostridium botulinum were transferred to other labs, on the assumption they were benign…
Latest update claimed that CDC scientists put anthrax into a chemical bath to inactivate it for 24 hours, but after only ten minutes took out a sample for plating and culturing to determine if viable spores remained. They failed to plate the anthrax that was transferred, after 24 hours in a chemical bath. And it…
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