(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

Update: The CDC says tests confirm the vials did not contain smallpox virus. Read the latest story here. Our earlier story is below. Philadelphia — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed ...

Vials containing SARS fragments hint at vulnerability. A French lab has lost more than 2,000 vials containing fragments of the deadly SARS virus, which killed nearly 800 people in a 2003 epidemic ...

Vials labeled with "smallpox" were found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where vaccine research is conducted, but it is unclear why the vials were there, according to the ...

Vials labeled as smallpox were discovered at a Pennsylvania lab, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The frozen vials "were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker ...

Vials labeled “smallpox” that were found at a Montgomery County lab did not contain the virus known to cause smallpox but instead contained the virus used in the smallpox vaccine, the Centers for ...

Vials labeled "smallpox" were found in a freezer at a lab in Pennsylvania, not long after Bill Gates cited a smallpox attack in an interview. There is no evidence of a connection between the two ...

Frozen vials labeled “Smallpox” were recently discovered by a laboratory worker at a Pennsylvania facility that conducts vaccine research, federal officials said. The vials were found while the worker ...

(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

Frozen vials with “smallpox” labels found at a Pennsylvania lab contain the virus used in the vaccine for the virus and not the virus that causes the disease, public health officials said Thursday.