CDC discovers its own researchers were accidentally exposed to Ebola in the lab

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Another major safety breach has occurred at a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) testing laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia. At least one technician working in a Biosafety Level 4 CDC facility — Level 5 is the highest — may have been exposed to the Ebola virus after specimens of the pathogen were mistakenly shipped to the wrong location.

The error occurred on Monday, December 22, reports The Washington Post, when a less-hazardous material sample was somehow swapped during shipment with a sample containing Ebola. The former ended up in the Level 4 facility, while the Ebola sample ended up in a lower-level facility down the hall.

An employee who discovered the Ebola sample inside a freezer the following day immediately notified CDC superiors, who shut it down and launched an investigation. The lab was decontaminated, and the samples were destroyed, followed by the lab being decontaminated a second time. All transfers to and from the lab have ceased while an internal review is conducted.

This higher-security lab had previously been conducting diagnostic tests for Ebola, many hundreds of which had taken place since July. Now that the lab has been shuttered, all such activity is now taking place in a separate lab, according to Stuart Nichol, a top CDC official.

“Such events like this are absolutely unacceptable even once,” stated Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, during a recent interview.

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