CDC Says It Just Discovered Vials Identified As Smallpox At A Lab In Maryland

On July 1, workers at the National Institutes of Health notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they discovered vials containing smallpox in a cold storage room of a Food and Drug Administration lab on the NIH Bethesda campus.  Because it's so infectious and considered a potential biological weapon, there are only two labs in the world authorized to possess variola, or smallpox. One is at the CDC in Atlanta, the other is at the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechn...