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Tag Archives: anthrax
Securing Anthrax (and Other Dangerous Pathogens)—the Risk of “Incomplete Inactivation”
In 2015, the Department of Defense discovered that one of its laboratories had inadvertently sent live anthrax to almost 200 other labs worldwide over 12 years. Labs routinely inactivate samples of dangerous pathogens so they can be shipped to other … Continue reading
High-Containment Labs (podcast)
To protect the public’s health, scientists working on things like anthrax and bird flu keep those diseases in “high-containment labs.” Yet, government agencies have mistakenly shipped live samples of anthrax from such labs, raising some serious management questions. A team … Continue reading
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April 25, 2016
Tagged anthrax, bird flu, DOD, HC, John Neumann, Marcia Crosse, NRE, pathogens, Plum Island
