Hundreds of deadly virus samples have vanished from an Australian lab in a 'major breach' of biosecurity. Yesterday, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls has announced that 323 vials of live ...

A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach, which ...

Hundreds of vials containing samples of infectious diseases from an Australian lab are missing after "major breaches" and a government investigation is underway. It happened at Queensland's virology ...

The same federal scientist who recently found forgotten samples of smallpox at a federal lab also uncovered over 300 additional vials, many bearing the names of highly contagious viruses and bacteria.

A Merck vaccine research lab in the Philadelphia area was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday night after the discovery of "questionable" vials inside a freezer that were labeled "smallpox" and ...

(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

More than 300 live virus samples went missing from an Australian state-run laboratory in the province of Queensland in what public health officials have deemed a “major breach” of biosecurity.

The deadly virus was declared eradicated in the 1970s — and only two labs in the entire world are supposed to have samples. Several frozen vials marked "smallpox" have been discovered by a lab worker ...

Routine inventory check detected missing vial of virus at Galveston National Laboratory Guanarito virus is carried by rodents in Venezuela but people can be infected ...

On July 1, workers at the National Institutes of Health notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they discovered vials containing smallpox in a cold storage room of a Food and Drug ...

A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday night and an ...