Smallpox In A Big Box With No Locks
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 08:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
You have to admire the consistency of our government, especially when it comes to protecting us.While the TSA is strip-searching 95-year old women in wheelchairs, a janitor tripped over a box of smallpox samples that someone left in an old Budweiser cooler in some closet.OK, this may not be strictly accurate. It could have been Bud Lite. And it wasn't really a janitor, but it really doesn't makes much difference in the grand scheme of things.What really happened is that a bunch of sealed vials of the smallpox virus—possibly the most deadly pathogen ever—were discovered in a cardboard box in storage room, unsecured and unlocked. This is not good. read more