Vials labeled 'smallpox' that were discovered in a freezer in a Philadelphia laboratory don't contain any traces of the deadly virus, federal health officials reveals. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Lee la historia en español aquí. UPDATE: The CDC announced Thursday that the vials did not contain the virus known to cause smallpox but instead contained the virus used in the smallpox vaccine. More ...

(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled “Smallpox" in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research.

A bottle of smallpox vaccine is held by a doctor at CDC headquarters in Atlanta in 2003. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) WASHINGTON — The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are ...

Vials labeled “smallpox” that were found at a Montgomery County lab did not contain the virus known to cause smallpox but instead contained the virus used in the smallpox vaccine, the Centers for ...

The FBI is investigating how several vials labeled “smallpox” came to be in a Pennsylvania vaccine research facility, The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are looking into the 15 ...

GALVESTON - The Galveston National Laboratory will adopt a newly developed method to track and inventory vials of potentially deadly pathogens as a result of a vial going missing last week that ...

Frozen vials with “smallpox” labels found at a Pennsylvania lab contain the virus used in the vaccine for the virus and not the virus that causes the disease, public health officials said Thursday.