New Microbes, Toxins Discovered In National Institutes of Health (NIH), FDA Lab Facilities

Containers filled with several types of potentially deadly substances, including a nearly 100-year-old vial of the toxin ricin and samples of the pathogens that cause botulism and the plague, have reportedly been discovered at US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratories. The substances were discovered as part of a search launched in response to the accidental discovery of smallpox at an NIH facility in Bethesda, Maryland earlier this summer, according to BBC News. In that incident, six freeze-dried and sealed vials of the disease were discovered, marking the first time that the unaccounted-for samples of the virus had been discovered in the US.

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