by John Dudley Miller
NEWS ANALYSIS	Researcher alleges CDC cover-up Email: John Dudley Miller - johnmiller@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050615-01 Published   15 June 2005

A former government researcher has charged the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with falsely concluding that she was responsible for the oversight of a dangerous experiment that almost killed her. Ru-ching Hsia, a microbiologist who worked in a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab in Beltsville, Maryland, from June to December 2003, became sick five days after another researcher's technician conducted an experiment in her lab.

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