CDC denies culpability in bird flu incident, claiming they ‘may never know’ how dangerous strain was sent to outside lab
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, August 02, 2014
Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have said they “may never know” how a relatively harmless form of bird flu was eventually cross-contaminated with a dangerous strain of the disease before it was sent to a laboratory outside of the CDC, according to an agency spokesman.
That’s because the bulk of materials used in an experiment to culture the virus were thrown away shortly after they were used by the researchers and scientists who performed the work, which took place in March, said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner, in an interview with Reuters.
The agency admitted to the bird flu incident as part of an internal investigation into its mishandling of live anthrax in June, in which dozens of the agency’s own lab workers were potentially exposed to the highly deadly pathogen.
Though no humans were sickened by the bird flu breach, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden has labeled the incident “the most distressing” in a series of safety and security breaches at his agency due to the risk to the public the virus posed.
‘We thought we were sending something else’
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