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

Six vials of potentially deadly smallpox virus have been discovered in a place they shouldn’t have been — an unused corner of a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration laboratory in Maryland, ...

Routine inventory check detected missing vial of virus at Galveston National Laboratory Guanarito virus is carried by rodents in Venezuela but people can be infected ...

The six long-lost vials of smallpox found this month at a government lab were only a small part of a cache of forgotten biological samples, officials announced Wednesday. Smallpox was discovered among ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the discovery of vials that are labeled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said Thursday. The frozen vials ...

Two vials containing the deadly hantavirus went missing in an Australian lab in 2024 as more than 300 vials vanished ...

Law enforcement leaders said Monday they arrested one man in connection with an alleged illegal biological laboratory in the east Las Vegas Valley. Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said authorities ...