By August 2023, authorities discovered that the whereabouts of many of these vials were unknown. Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, John Gerrard, revealed earlier this week that a total of 323 vials had been lost.
He stated that the vials “may have been removed from this secure storage facility and are now lost or otherwise unaccounted for.”
The
missing vials include nearly 100 samples of the Hendra virus, two of
hantavirus, and 223 of lyssavirus—each posing significant risks to human
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