{"id":1027751,"date":"2021-11-18T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027751"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T18:45:29","slug":"investigation-underway-following-discovery-of-vials-labeled-smallpox-in-pa-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-underway-following-discovery-of-vials-labeled-smallpox-in-pa-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway following discovery of vials labeled \u2018smallpox\u2019 in Pa. lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finvestigation-underway-following-discovery-of-vials-labeled-smallpox-in-pa-lab%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1027751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2585476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2585476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT SEA \u2013 MARCH 5: A U.S. Navy medical technician holds a bifurcated vaccinating needled above a vial containing the vaccine for small pox. (Photo by Michael W. Pendergrass\/U.S. Navy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:24 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, November 18, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is underway after several frozen vials labeled \u201csmallpox\u201d were discovered at a Merck facility in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday, a lab worker was clearing out a freezer at a facility in Montgomery County when the vials were found. Reports said the worker was wearing gloves and a face mask and there is no indication that anyone has been exposed to the vials.<\/p>\n<p>However, it remains unclear how the vials got to the facility in the first place. It was reported that a total of 15 questionable vials were discovered. Five of which were labeled \u201csmallpox\u201d and ten which were labeled as \u201cvaccinia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know what happens to things that get in the back of the freezer. So, we\u2019ve all had it happen. A, the question is, is it really smallpox or not? And B, how did it get there? And I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll ever get to the bottom of it or hear what that final result was,\u201d said Dr. Angie Nicholas, the chief medical officer at Einstein Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Only two facilities in the world are allowed to have the deadly virus, including the CDC\u2019s main lab in Atlanta and a facility in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerck is at least very open about this. They admitted they found these vials. They contacted the CDC and the CDC is investigating,\u201d said Dr. Thersa Sweet with Drexel University\u2019s Department of Public Health. \u201cAlso, hopefully, the transparency coming from both Merck and the CDC will help alleviate people\u2019s fears that there aren\u2019t vials of smallpox all over, which I don\u2019t think there are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are now determining whether to keep the samples of the virus or to destroy all known copies.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gop-senators-slam-biden-democrats-for-high-cost-of-thanksgiving-dinner\/\">GOP Senators Slam Biden, Democrats For High Cost Of Thanksgiving Dinner<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT SEA \u2013 MARCH 5: A U.S. Navy medical technician holds a bifurcated vaccinating needled above a vial containing the vaccine for small pox. (Photo by Michael W. 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