CDC closes labs after accidents with pathogens
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After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced Friday that they had temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency's highest-security labs.
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Entities 0 Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Count: 1 1 Name: Atlanta Count: 1 2 Name: HoustonChronicle.com Count: 1 3 Name: CDC Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/TXI5ur Title: Safety Concerns Prompt US to Close Labs, Suspend Shipping of Biological Materials Description: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shutting down two labs that handle highly infectious pathogens and imposing an immediate moratorium on shipments of all biological materials from high-level security laboratories until safety problems are addressed. The actions follow several troubling lapses in laboratory safety.
