Up to 75 C.D.C. Scientists May Have Been Exposed to Anthrax
As many as 75 scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have been exposed to anthrax bacteria after potentially infectious samples were moved to laboratories that thought they were safely inactive, a spokesman for the federal health agency said Thursday.
None of the potentially infected scientists have any symptoms, but a number of them are being treated with antibiotics “out of an abundance of caution,” the spokesman Thomas Skinner said.
The lapse occurred sometime from June 6 to June 13. Workers who were not wearing appropriate protective gear moved samples of the highly infectious bacteria that they believed had been deactivated.
More: Up to 75 C.D.C. Scientists May Have Been Exposed to Anthrax