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Lab worker accidentally injects herself with genetically modified strain of smallpox-related virus
Yahoo Health ^
| 10/29
| Zamira Rahim
Posted on 10/29/2019 8:48:48 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Her name could be Ima Klutz but not necessarily. Hand-eye coordination has to be excellent. Very organized workspace with room to work and nothing to bump into with your hands. If its not a task you do routinely, the muscle memory is not initially there so your hands and brain are working together slowly. Then there is the dreaded sneeze at the wrong time.
Youre working with disposable gloves for protection, not exactly armor against a needle puncture.
To: KittyKares
So this is what we get vaccinated with?
We haven't been getting vaccinated for smallpox since around 1980.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:30:37 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: American in Israel
A lab filled with the deadliest pathogens currently available on the planet.
Staffed by $14/hour contract employees.
What could go wrong?
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:31:32 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: Buckeye McFrog
I have a hard time believing she accidentally injected herself with this.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:37:20 AM PDT
by
hsmomx3
To: Jewbacca
This is the open scene of so many “KILLER B” movies!
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:37:29 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Future candidate for a Darwin Award.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:38:50 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
To: TangledUpInBlue
It’s a good thing the lab techs that compare DNA and get people put in jail for life don’t make any mistakes.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:39:45 AM PDT
by
fruser1
To: Buckeye McFrog
"A lab filled with the deadliest pathogens currently available on the planet. Staffed by $14/hour contract employees. What could go wrong?" 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.
To: Buckeye McFrog
“We haven’t been getting vaccinated for smallpox since around 1980.”
My latest was 2005.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:55:45 AM PDT
by
utax
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Stephen King’s The Stand was a great book, back when he did great books, about a similar accident with the flu.
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posted on
10/29/2019 9:59:39 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Jewbacca
M.O.O.N. that spells Scary.
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posted on
10/29/2019 10:02:26 AM PDT
by
desertsolitaire
(M.O.O.N. that spells SCARY.)
To: TangledUpInBlue
Zombie apocalypse by Thanksgiving. Hot dang! Gotta order another crate of ammo and some appropriate greeting cards.
To: Yo-Yo
The ability to re introduce smallpox to the general population.... and cause millions to suffer and die.
To: TangledUpInBlue
A science worker refuses a vaccine? That's serious denial.
It's been a while but I believe I got smallpox vaccine in the Army so we were prepared to deploy.
To: TangledUpInBlue
Was her name “Captain Trips”?
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posted on
10/29/2019 10:15:10 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: colorado tanker
A science worker refuses a vaccine? That's serious denial. It's been a while but I believe I got smallpox vaccine in the Army so we were prepared to deploy. 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?
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posted on
10/29/2019 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
Shethink13
(there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
To: Zathras
Catherine Trips, easy to see where the confusion started...
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posted on
10/29/2019 10:22:46 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: Shethink13
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.
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posted on
10/29/2019 10:25:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: Buckeye McFrog
They stopped smallpox vacs in 1972.
To: null and void; Shethink13; livius
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.
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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posted on
10/29/2019 10:42:11 AM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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