WPVI ABC World News With Diane Sawyer July 8, 2014
Smallpox ina cardboard box. Who came near it and how dangerous was it . Abcs chief health and medical editor dr. Besser starts us off with answers. Reporter tonight, real alarm about how six vials of smallpox were wleft in a low Security Laboratory for decades. Forgotten in a refrigerated storage room at the National Institute of health in bethesda, maryland. If this material is infectious and violences had broken what could have happened . There was a potential someone could have contracted the disease. Reporter the vials, believe to be from the 1950s, were discovered one week ago when the co...