A National Institutes of Health employee at a Montana lab may have been exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a disease with no cure and up to 50 percent fatality rate.
Experts say such lab accidents occur an average of five times per week in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
Unlike Canada, the United States has no centralized federal system to track all laboratory incidents across agencies.
The employee was immediately isolated and monitored, with NIH confirming no infection or transmission occurred.
Investigative reporting reveals safety breaches at high-containment labs are often kept secret from the public and even government agencies.
An employee at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a taxpayer-funded Biosafety Level 4 facility operated by the National Institutes of Health, may have been exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a rare viral disease with no approved cure and a fatality rate of up to 50 percent.
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