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It was shipped as inactive. live anthrax would have required more secure packaging and warning labels. lab workers would have been required to wear full protective suits to guard against any possible exposure. officials at the pentagon are searching for answers. they say, so far, there is no indication that any of those who may have handled this anthrax shipment from the proving ground has shown signs of anthrax infection. the cdc has ordered a lockdown of all those samples at some 19 military a...

Imported cases, poppy. and its disturbing nearly 20,000 people have been infected with ebola. more than 7,500 have died. since were talking about the cdc. it seems that every year theyre fighting more epidemics, epidemics keep getting bigger. yet their funding hasnt gone up to reflect the battles theyre fighting for us. if were hearing that more lab workers are tired, stressed, making these mistakes the agency needs more resources to fight the public health battles. >> obviously things need to g...

But when youre talking about lethal consequences, it feels like the barometer should be much higher for them. these seem crazy, these errors. >> they seem crazy, but when you think about it, its pretty simple. youre transferring a live virus, you think its dead virus, and its not. there wasnt an outside investigation by the u.s. department of agriculture on that anthrax situation which it found those dangerous materials were stored in unlocked refrigerators, general lack of lab workers following...

Exposed, ashleigh. >> kind of a crummy christmas for that one person. >> yeah. >> thats for sure. quick question, because you and i had lengthy discussions back in june after workers were potentially exposed to anthrax because of an inactivation, a problem, they did transferring, they hadnt activated the virus. there had to be protocol changes put ins place to minimize human errors. different protocols or same thing, same mistake, shouldnt have been made twice? >> yeah. well they put them in pla...

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Earn two times the thankyou points with no annual fee. to apply, go to citi.com/thankyoucards. welcome back to "the real story." lawmakers on capitol hill grilling the director of the cdc trying to get to the bottom of a recent string of safety lapses including even an anthrax scare and mishandling of the dangerous bird flu. we go live to washington. so what happened up on the hill? >> a lot of fireworks. the head of the cdc promising to end what he calls an insufficient culture of safety afte...

Expedia. find yours. on capitol hill today a grillingor for the heads of the centers for disease control in the wake of safety lapses last month. tom frieden testified in front of a house committee along with others over the incident that exposed as many as 84 federal lab workers to mishandled bird flu and deadly anthrax. >> the fact that it appears that no one was harmed and there were no releases does not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have h...

Cdcs director isnt taking any chances. >> our laboratories are core to our ability to protect americans. our laboratories are the reason we are the gold standard for not just infectious diseases but environmental health as well. and for this to happen and put our workers potentially at risk is totally unacceptable. so im upset. im angry. ive lost sleep over it. and im working around the clock to make sure we do everything possible to resolve. >> lab workers are being monitored and given antibiot...

Including children. but israel says its only targeting militants. >> trying to take out the rocket launching capabilities. we are trying to strike the command and control facilities of hamas. this is i would say a clear design, crafted mission. its not something were just doing out of a gut reflex. >> israel says hamas has fired about 700 rockets into israel, some of which have been destroyed by israels iron-dome defense system. now israelis have been killed in the attacks. lax safety protocol...

By international agreement, samples lived on in only two labs. the cdc in atlanta and one in siberia, or so we thought. law enforcement have long feared what could happen if terrorists get their hands on smallpox and turned it into a weapon. the newly discovered vials are now in a level 4 biohazard lab. security is so tight, you now need an eye scan to get access. the smallpox discovery comes just weeks after the cdc acknowledged possibly exposing dozens of lab workers to anthrax. those workers ...