A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet 120
Jason Koebler writes: The last remaining strains of smallpox are kept in highly protected government laboratories in Russia and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. And, apparently, in a dusty cardboard box in an old storage room in Maryland. The CDC said today that government workers had found six freeze-dried vials of the Variola virus, which causes smallpox, in a storage room at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland last week. Each test tube had a label on it that said "variola," which was a tip-off, but the agency did genetic testing to confirm that the viruses were, in fact, smallpox.
And I thought (Score:5, Funny)
Forgetting my car keys was a big deal....
Re:And I thought (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not gay, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks.
Smallpox. Brasil put down. Which is most bad? (Score:0, Funny)
In the wild. And Brasil got its hiney beaten to a pulp. Which is badder?
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Re:Ancient Demon Discovered (Score:5, Funny)
The tales of "Pandora's autoclave" and "Bilbo 'biohazard' Baggins transports some stuff to the nearest incinerator" just haven't caught the public imagination.
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I always suspected... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm glad smallpox has finally come out of the closet.
But don't worry... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, the box has already filled a complaint to Google in order to remove all search results related to this story...
And it will gone for good...
Re:Ancient Demon Discovered (Score:4, Funny)
The tales of (...) "Bilbo 'biohazard' Baggins transports some stuff to the nearest incinerator" just haven't caught the public imagination.
Frodo Baggins, on the other hand...