You never know what you'll discover when you move. Smallpox discovered sitting in Maryland storage room
"Today in smallpox, apparently: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that employees at the National Institutes of Health found some vials containing smallpox sitting in a laboratory storage room in Bethesda. These vials were labeled ‘variola,’ which the CDC calls ‘the severe and most common form of smallpox.’
The vials were discovered last week in an unused part of a storage room inside a laboratory operated by the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC said in a news release. They were found by employees preparing to move the lab, which has been operated by the FDA since 1972, over to the main FDA campus."
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When we inherited labs in grad school and had to clean them out we only ran across much safer stuff like liquid mercury spills, metallic sodium under oil and decades old peroxides.
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