Report finds major safety lapses at government labs

Federal government laboratories in Atlanta mistakenly shipped highly dangerous pathogens, including anthrax, potentially lethal botulism bacteria, and deadly bird flu virus to other laboratories in five separate incidents in the past decade, officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed those incidents in a report Friday describing the safety lapses last month, when as many as 84 workers may have been exposed to live anthrax after employees unknowingly sent live samples of the bacteria from one CDC lab to other CDC labs.

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