Pathogen lab lost infected mice
A New Jersey infectious disease lab seems to be plagued with an inability to keep track of research mice infected with dangerous pathogens. The facility, part of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, seems to have misplaced two frozen carcasses of mice infected with bubonic plague last December, the linkurl:New Jersey Star Ledger;http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-12/123398465742360.xml&coll=1&thispage=2 reported this weekend. According to the facility,
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