U.S. military mistakenly ships live anthrax to labs in 9 states
Source: Reuters
The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon said there was no known suspected infection or risk to the public. But four U.S. civilians have been started on preventive measures called post-exposure prophylaxis, which usually includes the anthrax vaccine, antibiotics or both.
The four face "minimal" risk, said Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has begun an investigation of the incident. The four were "doing procedures that sent the agent into the air," he said.
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The mishap comes 11 months after the CDC, one of the government's top civilian labs, similarly mishandled anthrax.
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AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)to notice where the Anthrax went eh?
What a load of crap!
Alkene
(752 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Military, cops, republicans, etc.
etc.
& recommend.
truthisfreedom
(23,141 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)Is there a Patriot Act up for renewal or something?
happyslug
(14,779 posts)This should help kill the reputation that the Post Office does NOT know how to handle packages.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)and we Americans don't even hear about our military 'mistakes' cause we have no real news anymore, just years of republican political crap.