Posted on 10/29/2019 8:48:48 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
A 26-year-old lab employee accidentally injected herself with a smallpox-related virus during an experiment, US health experts have said.
The woman’s finger swelled up and turned black, before she recovered, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
The lab employee, who has not been named, was offered an inoculation against the virus before starting her new job but refused it.
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You’re working with disposable gloves for protection, not exactly armor against a needle puncture.
A lab filled with the deadliest pathogens currently available on the planet.
Staffed by $14/hour contract employees.
What could go wrong?
I have a hard time believing she accidentally injected herself with this.
This is the open scene of so many “KILLER B” movies!
Future candidate for a Darwin Award.
It’s a good thing the lab techs that compare DNA and get people put in jail for life don’t make any mistakes.
Kind of like a national government, staffed by partisan hacks who've never held a real job - but nevertheless think they should be empowered to dictate how the rest of society should live.
“We haven’t been getting vaccinated for smallpox since around 1980.”
My latest was 2005.
Stephen King’s The Stand was a great book, back when he did great books, about a similar accident with the flu.
M.O.O.N. that spells Scary.
Zombie apocalypse by Thanksgiving. Hot dang! Gotta order another crate of ammo and some appropriate greeting cards.
The ability to re introduce smallpox to the general population.... and cause millions to suffer and die.
It's been a while but I believe I got smallpox vaccine in the Army so we were prepared to deploy.
Was her name “Captain Trips”?
This is not personal to you in particular, but it never ceases to amaze me the complete ignorance in the general public of vaccinations and how they work. She just inoculated herself with the organism that is in the vaccination. Why do you think adding more of the vector into her body would make a difference?
Catherine Trips, easy to see where the confusion started...
Point of order, she refused the vaccine BEFORE she started working with the pathogens.
QUOTE The lab employee, who has not been named, was offered an inoculation against the virus before starting her new job but refused it. CLOSE QUOTE
Granted, that factoid is mentioned at the very end of the excerpt.
The three line excerpt.
They stopped smallpox vacs in 1972.
QUOTE The lab employee, who has not been named, was offered an inoculation against the virus before starting her new job but refused it. CLOSE QUOTE
Granted, that factoid is mentioned at the very end of the excerpt.
The three line excerpt.
That's what I thought the first time it was written. Some people may be poor on reading comprehension. My English teacher, Mrs. Reynolds, said I was poor at that in the eight grade.
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