Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army lab in Frederick, Maryland, faced a terrifying situation in 1989 when imported monkeys started dying from a strain of the Ebola virus. After destroying 500 monkeys and quarantining the lab and everyone in it, officials found that this particular strain was harmless to humans. But the episode was dramatic enough to inspire an article in the New Yorker magazine -- now expanded into a soon-to-be released book called The Hot Zone -- and work on two competing movies (one of which seems to have collapsed before production...
...Yale scientist's infection prompts calls for tighter lab security...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Claude Boral (General Manager); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library); Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection); Editorial Technology: Dennis Chesnel...
...genetic match between Simpson's blood and the trail of blood droplets leading from the site where Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slain. This sent defense lawyers scrambling to demonstrate that various samples had been mishandled and might be contaminated. Under questioning, Andrea Mazzola, a novice police lab technician, said that her work in Simpson's driveway had been unsupervised by a senior technician and that she had made minor clerical errors in labeling the samples...
...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 under observation at least two dozen people in Connecticut and Massachusetts with whom the unidentified researcher had contact after the accident...