US Biodefense Lab Cannot Account for Deadly Stock.

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1. 9,200 Deadly Germs/Toxins Vials Unaccounted For By Army Biodefense Lab

 

An

inventory of deadly germs and toxins at an Army biodefense lab in

Frederick found more than 9,200 vials of material that was unaccounted

for in laboratory records, Fort Detrick officials said Wednesday. Col.

Mark Kortepeter, deputy commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research

Institute of Infectious Diseases said the found material included

Korean War-era serum samples from patients with Korean hemorrhagic

fever, a disease still of interest to researchers pursuing a vaccine.

Other vials contained viruses and microbes responsible for Ebola,

plague, anthrax, botulism and host of other ailments. He said Army

criminal investigators have concluded that three vials of Venezuelan

equine encephalitis that were discovered missing last year "were likely

used up but for some reason were never recorded with the database."

David Dishneau, Associated Press