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Posted On: 09/17/2019 11:44:14 AM
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I'm sure there's no danger here -- after all, the Russians say don't worry.
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An explosion started a fire at a Russian research center that houses smallpox and Ebola, blowing out glass windows and inflicting third-degree burns on one worker, although state-run media said that there is no danger to the general population.
The State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, also known as the Vector Institute, is one of only two places in the world that still houses the smallpox virus, after the WHO declared the disease eradicated in 1980. The other is — somewhat controversially — the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
Although there is no indication yet that independent media have confirmed the report that the area around the facility, Koltsovo city in Siberia, remains safe, the state agency TASS said there were no biohazards in the part of the center affected by the explosion.
https://endpts.com/explosion-fire-rip-russian...pox-ebola/
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