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Little Shop of Horrors: Accidents at a Bioweapons Lab
Little Shop of Horrors: Accidents at a Bioweapons Lab
Quote:on November 2, 1954, his secretary accidently sent 75 fleas infected with Yersinia pestis through the U.S. Postal Service to Dale Jenkins at Fort Detrick.
Yersinia pestis, aka “The Plague” or “The Black Death,” killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages. Shipping dangerous pathogens through the mail poses risks of releases through vehicle accidents, theft, or hungry rodents. The seriousness of this was reinforced in 2004, when Dr. Thomas Butler from Texas Tech University was sent to jail for two years, in part, for the illegal transport of plague samples inside and outside of the country. [3]