Virus goes missing at UTMB lab

Should read " Vial goes missing from an UNsecure lab !

The virus:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

History

From September 1989 through December 2006, the State of Portuguesa recorded 618 cases of VHF. Nearly all of the cases were individuals who worked or lived in Guanarito during the time they became infected. The case fatality rate was 23.1%.[3]


Presentation

VHF has many similarities to Lassa fever and to the arenavirus hemorrhagic fevers that occur in Argentina and Bolivia.[5] It causes fever and malaise followed by hemorrhagic manifestations and convulsions.[7] Some presentations of the virus are also characterized by vascular damage, bleeding diathesis, fever, and multiple organ involvement. Clinical diagnosis of VHF has proven to be difficult based on the nonspecific symptoms.[4] The disease is fatal in 30% of cases and is endemic to Portuguesa state and Barinas state in Venezuela.

Treatment and prevention for the VHF virus are limited and there are currently no licensed vaccines available that can act to prevent the disease [4] . However, once infected, Ribavirin, an anti-viral drug given intravenously, is one way to treat VHF.

DOOOM ON!!!

Because the virus is contracted by aerosol dissemination, concern arose shortly after the first cases emerged in 1989 due to fear of biological warfare. Potential biological terrorism agents were identified and categorized in 1999 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Congressional initiative to further response capabilities to biological weapons [4] . Arenaviruses causing hemorrhagic fevers, along with a genus of virus called filoviruses, were categorized in Category A; these are pathogens with the highest potential impact on public health safety.


[link to en.wikipedia.org]

A vial containing a potentially deadly virus has gone missing from a secure biomedical research facility at The University of Texas Medical Branch’s Galveston National Laboratory.

[link to www.galvestondailynews.com]

In the movie 12 Monkeys, they had switch security protocols and procedures just ahead of a rogue scientist taking some stuff from the facility.

I wonder if they had any recent security changes lately.

12 of them and Outbreak
I was in a store yesterday and this guy with two kids was sneezing as loud and nastily as he could. Not covering his mouth at all! Not even attempting to; But, rather blasting it all over the establishment.
He got in line behind the individual with me and I said stuff. I even mentioned the movie Outbreak. It was very good to do so, although I did not want to bring shame nor did I express enjoyment in doing so.

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I think I have it..

I have something and it is a mutant type cold..

Like Bronchitis and walking Pneumonia together..

Well?

What virus?

I don't want to click the link and read entire paragraphs unless it's weaponized anthrax or something.

I dunno. I'd be worried about anything that escaped from a level 4 bio-lab. Reassurances that it's not dangerous coming from the people that lost it make me feel worse. How much safe shit do they store in level 4?

We keep letting stupid Yankees into our labs.

Holder's Operation Fast and Infectious.

In January of 03 black plague went missing at Texas tech.

Also the largest bio-4 lab in the world located on an academic campus.

I dunno. I'd be worried about anything that escaped from a level 4 bio-lab. Reassurances that it's not dangerous coming from the people that lost it make me feel worse. How much safe shit do they store in level 4?