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The accident must have come as a horrifying shock, even for an experienced scientist. One minute, a sample was spinning in a high-speed centrifuge. Then, suddenly, the container cracked, and the sample -- tissue contaminated by a rare, potentially lethal virus -- spattered the inside of the centrifuge. Fortunately, the Yale...
Bad move. Although he would not realize it for about a week, the scientist -- his name has not been officially released -- had been infected with the mysterious Brazilian Sabia virus. Soon after he got back to Yale, he was running a fever that reached 103F. An experimental antiviral drug eventually...
Even so, the accident has raised questions about whether such dangerous disease agents are being handled carefully enough. Sabia and several related viruses -- Junin, Machupo and Guanarito in South America and Lassa in Africa, all members of the arenavirus family -- are particularly frightening because they can kill in such a...
Investigators looking into the air crash that killed all 44 people aboard a Royal Air Maroc passenger flight concluded that the accident was intentionally caused by the pilot as he committed suicide. Transport Ministry officials said the pilot disconnected the automatic controls and pushed the aircraft into a dive while...
A researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was quarantined and put under treatment for a potentially fatal infection he contracted after a lab mishap exposed him to a rare virus he was studying. To avert the spread of the microbe known as Sabia virus, health officials are keeping...