Australian officials did report missing virus samples in 2024, but a later investigation found incomplete lab records were likely to blame.

Nearly 100 live samples of the deadly Hendra virus have been lost in a biosecurity bungle at a state-run Queensland laboratory. An investigation has been launched after it was revealed 323 virus ...

A Merck vaccine research lab in the Philadelphia area was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday night after the discovery of "questionable" vials inside a freezer that were labeled "smallpox" and ...

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Hundreds of vials containing deadly viruses have gone missing from a lab in Australia and remain unaccounted for. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls made the shocking announcement earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bottle of smallpox vaccine is held by a doctor at CDC headquarters in Atlanta in 2003. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) (Reuters ...