Posted on 02/23/2009 3:51:20 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
TRENTON, N.J. — The frozen remains of two mice injected with the organism that causes plague have not been accounted for seven weeks after being discovered missing at a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey facility in Newark, the university said Friday.
The FBI investigated and determined there was no risk to public health or any indication of the terrorist link.
It wasn't the first time plague-infected mice have disappeared from the New Jersey facility. Four years ago, in September 2005, three live mice infected with bubonic plague bacteria disappeared from various cages. Officials later said they believed the rodents had died.
UMDNJ's Public Health Research Institute issued a four-paragraph statement about the December incident late Friday saying it believes the red hazardous waste bag containing the dead mice was sterilized and incinerated along with another bag.
"Although the mice in the missing bag were used in vaccine experiments involving the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the organism that causes plague, UMDNJ has no reason to believe that this situation poses a risk to the safety or health of UMDNJ staff or the community at large," the university said in its prepared statement.
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Even in death, rats are smart enough to flee New Jersey.
Who is accountable in the USA?
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“Duh, I fink so, Bwain...but my glands are all swollen up!”
From my experience....the folks in Newark won’t even notice....
Too funny!
Meanwhile, in other news Akbar Hussien Ramamlamadingdong has also not reported to work today at the Newark facility.......
Women and minorities expected to be the hardest hit........
“It wasn’t the first time plague-infected mice have disappeared from the New Jersey facility.”
I think these folks should have their “plague-infected”
mice permit revoked.
One is a genuis, the other’s insane
LOL-but probably right on.
Great, I spelled Genius wrong!
They’ve been identified by dental records:
Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Plague is carried naturally in rodents.
The scary signs you see in Yosemite and other big parks always give me pause when those cute, tame little devils come up and start mooching.
Isn’t the Bubonic Mouse the one you have to use with Windows Vista?
A bubonic moose once bit my sister.
Wow.. that can be rather nasti.
They probably just ran next door to boil their water.
Noone. America is on borrowed time, like... a deer in the headlights. A sitting duck. A driver parked on the railroad tracks yapping on a cell phone. A turtle on the highway.
January 20, 2009: the day of "change" from life to death. Hashem will spare the remnant. Happy is he who waits and reaches the 1335 days.
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