- Technician working in the secure laboratory mistakenly put an Ebola sample in a place where it was transferred to another lab
- Up to a dozen people in the area are being assessed for exposure risks
- The technician at greatest risk had not yet developed symptoms, but will be monitored for 21 days
- There was no possible exposure outside the secure laboratory and no exposure or risk to the public
- Up to a dozen workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Atlanta campus may have been exposed to a misplaced sample of the Ebola virus
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Up to a dozen U.S. scientists may have been exposed to misplaced Ebola sample at CDC lab in Atlanta
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