Smallpox vials from 1950s turn up in U.S. lab unexpectedly


Science | 206799 hits | Jul 08 12:03 pm | Posted by: DrCaleb
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A U.S. government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington made a startling discovery last week � decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

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  1. by avatar wildrosegirl
    Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:20 pm
    Well isn't that handy? How many other unaccounted for greeblies are out there?
    One wrong set of hands coming upon them and we're screwed.

  2. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:29 pm
    ...the virus might have been dead, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.


    It wasn't. But it might have been. Nice try. :wink:

  3. by avatar saturn_656
    Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:36 pm
    Some people misplace their car keys... others misplace vials of the smallpox virus.

    "Damn Jeeves I was wondering where I stashed those!"

    8)



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