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.

PHILADELPHIA — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled “Smallpox” in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research. The ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the discovery of vials that are labeled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said Thursday. The frozen vials ...

A Merck vaccine research lab in the Philadelphia area was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday night after the discovery of "questionable" vials inside a freezer that were labeled "smallpox" and ...

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INFORMATION. FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE CONFIRMED THE DISCOVERY OF SOME FROZEN VLSIA LABELED SMALLPOX IN A FREEZER AT A MERC FILACITY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE CDC SAID THE VIALS WERE INCIDENTALLY ...