Why would anybody need to work on vaccines? You can’t hunt with them!
A young research associate killed by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease is believed to have contracted the bacteria from the San Francisco lab where he was working on a vaccine against it, public health officials said on Thursday.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts are seeking to confirm what they already suspect: that Richard Din, 25, died Saturday in an unusual case of a scientist being fatally infected with an agent from his own laboratory.
Just like the lawful carry of firearms can result in some “Gun Death” work on vaccines and other diseases can lead to fatal accidents. I would say its a risk well worth it…those who hate freedom want to ban it.
Who’s side are you on?
Aren’t those lab strains usually genetically neutered?
I know a lab tech who got gonorrhea into her eye from a micro-pipette malfunction (no safety glasses!). Luckily it was neutered but she did have a great time explaining that one to the ER staff.
Pretty sure my wife worked in a lab that had virulent HIV. Thankfully that wasn’t her project. I’ve worked with dangerous shit and know the OSHA tends to always err on the side of paranoid, but its another thing when somebody you love is doing it out of your sight.
I know we work with active human tumor cells. Chances are if your needle slipped your immune system would kill the foreign cells…but there’s always the chance that they’d take hold.