The six long-lost vials of smallpox found this month at a government lab were only a small part of a cache of forgotten biological samples, officials announced Wednesday. Smallpox was discovered among ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the discovery of vials that are labeled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said Thursday. The frozen vials ...

Hundreds of vials containing deadly viruses have gone missing from a lab in Australia and remain unaccounted for. Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls made the shocking announcement earlier this ...

A Merck vaccine research lab in the Philadelphia area was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday night after the discovery of "questionable" vials inside a freezer that were labeled "smallpox" and ...

Six vials of potentially deadly smallpox virus have been discovered in a place they shouldn’t have been — an unused corner of a storage room at a Food and Drug Administration laboratory in Maryland, ...

In a new statement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the vials found in a Pennsylvania lab contained vaccinia, the virus used in the smallpox vaccine. By Johnny Diaz This article ...

Routine inventory check detected missing vial of virus at Galveston National Laboratory Guanarito virus is carried by rodents in Venezuela but people can be infected ...

A criminal investigation is underway at one of Brazil’s most prestigious research universities after 709 vials containing virus samples were reported missing from a high-security laboratory. The ...