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 ...

ATLANTA — A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in ...

A criminal investigation is underway at one of Brazil’s most prestigious research universities after 709 vials containing ...

Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses - including samples of Eastern ...

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Six vials of potentially deadly smallpox virus have been discovered in a place they shouldn’t have been — an unused corner of a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration laboratory in Maryland, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...