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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

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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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 it’s 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.

You’re working with disposable gloves for protection, not exactly armor against a needle puncture.

21 posted on 10/29/2019 9:29:53 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: KittyKares
So this is what we get vaccinated with?

We haven't been getting vaccinated for smallpox since around 1980.


22 posted on 10/29/2019 9:30:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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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?


23 posted on 10/29/2019 9:31:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I have a hard time believing she accidentally injected herself with this.


24 posted on 10/29/2019 9:37:20 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Jewbacca

This is the open scene of so many “KILLER B” movies!


25 posted on 10/29/2019 9:37:29 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Future candidate for a Darwin Award.


26 posted on 10/29/2019 9:38:50 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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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.


27 posted on 10/29/2019 9:39:45 AM PDT by fruser1
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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.

28 posted on 10/29/2019 9:42:13 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“We haven’t been getting vaccinated for smallpox since around 1980.”

My latest was 2005.


29 posted on 10/29/2019 9:55:45 AM PDT by utax
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Stephen King’s The Stand was a great book, back when he did great books, about a similar accident with the flu.


30 posted on 10/29/2019 9:59:39 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Jewbacca

M.O.O.N. that spells Scary.


31 posted on 10/29/2019 10:02:26 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (M.O.O.N. that spells SCARY.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Zombie apocalypse by Thanksgiving. Hot dang! Gotta order another crate of ammo and some appropriate greeting cards.


32 posted on 10/29/2019 10:04:52 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Yo-Yo

The ability to re introduce smallpox to the general population.... and cause millions to suffer and die.


33 posted on 10/29/2019 10:06:37 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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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.

34 posted on 10/29/2019 10:12:21 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Was her name “Captain Trips”?


35 posted on 10/29/2019 10:15:10 AM PDT by Zathras
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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?

36 posted on 10/29/2019 10:22:32 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: Zathras

Catherine Trips, easy to see where the confusion started...


37 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...)
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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.


38 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...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They stopped smallpox vacs in 1972.


39 posted on 10/29/2019 10:40:54 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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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.

40 posted on 10/29/2019 10:42:11 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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