Smallpox-Related — Worldwide/Unknown
On 1 Jul 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) notified the appropriate regulatory agency, the Division of Select Agents and Toxins (DSAT) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that employees discovered vials labeled “variola,” commonly known as smallpox, in an unused portion of a storage room in a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory located on the NIH Bethesda campus [in Maryland, USA].
The laboratory was among those transferred from NIH to FDA in 1972,
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