Emergency Response for a Laboratory Biosafety Incident

On December 14, 2017, a faculty member of a university in Hunan Province reported that an anthrax vaccine strain might have recovered virulence during an undergraduate experiment and potential exposure could not be ruled out for the students involved. Upon receiving the case report, the CDC, health...

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Published in:Biomedical and environmental sciences 2019-03, Vol.32 (3), p.231-233
Main Authors: ZHANG, En Min, WANG, Jia Qi, GAO, Li Dong, ZHAN, Zhi Fei, ZHANG, Heng, HU, Yan Hong, WEI, Jian Chun, LIANG, Xu Dong, WAN, Kang Lin, WEI, Qiang
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Summary:On December 14, 2017, a faculty member of a university in Hunan Province reported that an anthrax vaccine strain might have recovered virulence during an undergraduate experiment and potential exposure could not be ruled out for the students involved. Upon receiving the case report, the CDC, health bureaus, and local governments at the county, prefectural, and provincial levels promptly organized experts in different fields (including epidemiologists, biosafety experts, and laboratory testing experts) for case investigation, evaluation, and response. As the investigation results showed, no virulence recovery was identified in the involved anthrax vaccine strain; and no contamination of Bacillus anthracis was detected at the involved areas. Thus, the university returned to normal functioning.
ISSN:0895-3988
2214-0190
DOI:10.3967/bes2019.032