October 19, 2007
After Accidents, Laboratory Safety Is Questioned
In May a laboratory worker at the University of Kentucky was exposed to the bacterium that causes bubonic plague when an autoclave bag leaked.
Two months later, a researcher at the University of Chicago was stuck with a syringe containing the bacterium that causes anthrax.
Then, in August, a researcher at Saint Louis University was stuck with a needle containing the monkeypox virus.
The accidents, which are under investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and
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