OMG... Can you believe this!!!!

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2005/09/16/1219751-sun.html

Re: OMG... Can you believe this!!!!

Here is the article;

NEWARK, New Jersey -- Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago. Authorities have launched a search though health experts said there was little public risk.

The mice were unaccounted for at the Public Health Research Institute, which is on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and conducts bioterrorism research for the U.S. government.

Federal officials said the mice may never be accounted for. Among other things, the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error.

If the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, said state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs.

The possibility of theft prompted the institute to interrogate two dozen of its employees and conduct lie detector tests, reports said.


The FBI said it was investigating.

The mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment, investigators said.

Re: OMG... Can you believe this!!!!

Plague Mice go on the lam

although this is disturbing (on MANY levels), the positive is that the public is not at risk due to the fact that they more than likely have already died and therefore cannot spread the disease.

Message edited 9/16/2005 10:18:49 AM.

Re: OMG... Can you believe this!!!!

Scary that someone may have actually taken them!!!!!!! Not as much worried if they escaped.