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DanG
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STATE DEPARTMENT LOSES TRACK OF HUNDREDS OF VIRUSES AND MICROBES IMPORTED TO HAWAII
| Quote From Source: | The state Department of Agriculture lost track of hundreds of viruses and microbes imported to Hawai'i for research purposes over a five-decade period because of a breakdown in the agency's paperwork system.
The bulk of the import applications were filed by University of Hawai'i researchers who failed to report on the inventory and location of viruses and other microbes imported under 356 state permits dating back nearly 50 years, the agriculture department said.
In many cases, required paperwork was not filed because researchers that imported restricted microorganisms were no longer around.
"Some of the (permits) went back to the early '60s — they were close to 50 years old and there were faculty members that were deceased (and) faculty members that were no longer with the university,"....
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chrisisasavage
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Reminds me of the situation a couple years ago where samples of the 1957 Asian Flu were lost in transit.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/ci...nflu/news/april1905h2n2.html |
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