Sources of biological hazard are closed for re-accounting
The Pentagon has temporarily closed all top-secret laboratories
The deadly bacteria could have been incorrectly labeled by employees of the Pentagon's top-secret laboratories. This led to the preventive closure of all nine laboratories.
Employees of the Pentagon's top-secret laboratories, apparently, incorrectly labeled potentially deadly bacteria, and also stored and transported them in violation of safety standards. The discovery last week of anthrax bacteria at a military base in Utah led to the preventive closure of all nine laboratories of the US Department of Defense.
Currently, army investigators are checking information about the improper handling of samples of anthrax, plague and encephalitis bacteria, as well as whether these samples posed a threat to people and whether they were incorrectly labeled and mistakenly forwarded to other laboratories, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on Thursday, September 10.
"A number of obvious problems"He noted that so far there is no indication that any of the laboratory staff or the public could have been affected by these bacteria.
Cook, however, assured that the Pentagon will conduct the most thorough investigation of what happened. He also acknowledged that the US Department of Defense's biological warfare program faced "a number of obvious problems." Experiments with most of the bacteria are currently suspended, Peter Cook said.
In May, it became known that anthrax bacteria were transported to laboratories in nine US states, as well as to an American military base in South Korea. In June, it turned out that active anthrax spores may have been transported to an American laboratory in the German city of Landstuhl, the dpa agency notes.
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