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60-Year-Old Smallpox Vials Found in Unused FDA Storage Room

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UPDATED: Thursday, July 10, 2014 20:15
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 4:58 AM

AURAPTOR

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This must be the scariest lost and found ever.

Officials are investigating how a handful of decades-old vials of smallpox made their way to an unused portion of a storage room at an FDA laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland.

The vials, which the CDC says appear to date from the 1950s, were immediately secured in a containment facility in Bethesda before they were sent to the CDC’s high-containment facility in Atlanta. The vials are now being tested to determine if the virus is still “viable” — meaning if it has the ability to grow in tissue culture.

The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus may well have been dead, because it wasn't kept cold over the years, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

http://mashable.com/2014/07/08/smallpox-vials-found/?utm_cid=Mash-Prod
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And these are the ones we KNOW of. Super.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:27 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
This must be the scariest lost and found ever.

Officials are investigating how a handful of decades-old vials of smallpox made their way to an unused portion of a storage room at an FDA laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland.

The vials, which the CDC says appear to date from the 1950s, were immediately secured in a containment facility in Bethesda before they were sent to the CDC’s high-containment facility in Atlanta. The vials are now being tested to determine if the virus is still “viable” — meaning if it has the ability to grow in tissue culture.

The six glass vials of freeze-dried virus were intact and sealed with melted glass, and the virus may well have been dead, because it wasn't kept cold over the years, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

http://mashable.com/2014/07/08/smallpox-vials-found/?utm_cid=Mash-Prod
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And these are the ones we KNOW of. Super.


But how will Obamination force folks into Obamacare if those vials are not "accidentally" released. Whoever "found" those is going to be reassigned to Barrows, AK.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:06 PM

STORYMARK


I wondered how long it would take for you bozos to turn a screw up from 60 years ago into another way to bitch about Obamacare.

You fools never disappoint.



“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:17 PM

AURAPTOR

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Our federal bureaucracy at work.

Not so fun when it's polio , huh?

Oh, but how cool is it when the ark of the covenant gets lost in the archives ?

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:22 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by Storymark:
I wondered how long it would take for you bozos to turn a screw up from 60 years ago into another way to bitch about Obamacare.

You fools never disappoint.


Nothing to see here, move along.
These are not the droids we're looking for, carry on.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:38 PM

AURAPTOR

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It is how big gov works. And pointing that out makes Storybook very fussy.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 4:31 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Maybe they could find some Indians who need some warm blankets.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 5:57 PM

AURAPTOR

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Maybe they could find some Indians who need some warm blankets.



Too late. The infected Indians are coming from the Central America, on Barry's invite... omg! I blamed Barry for something else ! I can't stop myself!!

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:15 PM

WHOZIT


I think they found the viles next to the crate with the lost ark.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:16 PM

JONGSSTRAW


That's ok. We need more churros and arepas vendors at every intersection. Obama is just stimulating free market capitalism.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:21 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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I think they found the viles next to the crate with the lost ark.

Vials, not viles. Like miners, not minors. Of course when they found the ark it was no longer lost.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 6:40 PM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by WHOZIT:
I think they found the viles next to the crate with the lost ark.


Vials, not viles. Like miners, not minors. Of course when they found the ark, it was no longer lost.



Nope. It was well looked after, by TOP men.


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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 8:06 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by WHOZIT:
I think they found the viles next to the crate with the lost ark.


Vials, not viles. Like miners, not minors. Of course when they found the ark, it was no longer lost.



Nope. It was well looked after, by TOP men.



Stored right next to Obama's college records and birth certificate.

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Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:43 PM

STORYMARK


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Stored right next to Obama's.... birth certificate.



Keep being crazy. Its literally the only thing you're good at.



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Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:15 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:

Originally posted by WHOZIT:
I think they found the viles next to the crate with the lost ark.


Vials, not viles. Like miners, not minors. Of course when they found the ark, it was no longer lost.



Nope. It was well looked after, by TOP men.



Stored right next to Obama's college records and birth certificate.


Under the subpoenaed Rose Law Firm billing records?

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