A Merck vaccine research lab in the Philadelphia area was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday night after the discovery of "questionable" vials inside a freezer that were labeled "smallpox" and ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed Tuesday that six decades-old vials of the smallpox virus were discovered earlier this month at a government laboratory in Bethesda, Md. The extremely ...

(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

Routine inventory check detected missing vial of virus at Galveston National Laboratory Guanarito virus is carried by rodents in Venezuela but people can be infected ...

The same federal scientist who recently found forgotten samples of smallpox at a federal lab also uncovered over 300 additional vials, many bearing the names of highly contagious viruses and bacteria.

Hundreds of deadly virus samples have vanished from an Australian lab in a 'major breach' of biosecurity. Yesterday, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls has announced that 323 vials of live ...

Hundreds of vials containing deadly viruses have gone missing from a lab in Australia and remain unaccounted for. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls made the shocking announcement earlier this ...

A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach, which ...

Hundreds of vials containing samples of infectious diseases from an Australian lab are missing after "major breaches" and a government investigation is underway. It happened at Queensland's virology ...

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 ...