Live virus samples lost in major Queensland lab breach
An investigation has been launched after it was revealed 323 virus samples went missing from Virology Laboratory in 2021 in a "major breach" of biosecurity protocol.
The material, which included samples of Hendra virus, lyssavirus and hantavirus, appears to have gone missing after a freezer storing the samples broke down.
they chucked it without paperwork. It's all fucked outside of deep freeze, and three years later we would know if that shit had gotten loose.
Giving me November 2019 flashbacks 😬
(But seriously, it should be nothing to worry about. These viruses will degrade very quickly outside of the cold freezer environment they were stored in.)