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“Ebola gene theft a shocker
Sparks serious questions about security at city’s microbiology lab”
By: Jen Skerritt
14/05/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

SNIPPET: “WINNIPEG – For nearly four months, scientists at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Lab had no idea that a former researcher walked out of the strictly controlled federal facility with 22 vials of stolen biological material — including vials that contained genes of the lethal Ebola virus.

The theft has sparked controversy and serious questions about security protocols at a lab that contains some of the world’s deadliest pathogens.

Dr. Frank Plummer, the lab’s scientific director, said no one knew the vials were missing until May 5 when the RCMP alerted them there had been a theft — the same day FBI special agents arrested the former Winnipeg researcher as he tried to cross the Manitoba-North Dakota border en route to his new job at a U.S. bio-defence facility in Maryland.”