Sunday, March 24, 2013
Israeli army destroys Syrian position which fired on Golan
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Israeli forces shot two Tamuz rockets at the Syrian position in Tel Fares, in the southern Golan, after establishing the source of the gunfire which damaged Israeli military patrol vehicles Saturday night and Sunday morning. The position was razed. Some casualties reported on the Syrian side. Israel has suspended work on the new border fence for now.
Israeli forces shot two Tamuz rockets at the Syrian position in Tel Fares, in the southern Golan, after establishing the source of the gunfire which damaged Israeli military patrol vehicles Saturday night and Sunday morning. The position was razed. Some casualties reported on the Syrian side. Israel has suspended work on the new border fence for now.
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Missing virus vial raises concerns at UTMB facility
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A vial containing a potentially harmful virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, officials said.
The missing vial, which contains less than a quarter of a teaspoon an infectious disease, had been stored in a locked freezer, designed to handle biological material safely, within the Galveston National Laboratory on UTMB's campus, officials said. During a routine internal inspection last week, UTMB officials realized one vial of a virus called Guanarito was not accounted for at the facility.
Scott Weaver, the laboratory's scientific director, said Guanarito is an emerging disease that has caused deadly diseases in Venezuela. The federal government prioritizes it for research because it has the potential to be used a weapon for terrorists.
On Tuesday, an investigator discovered that only four out of five vials were stored of the virus in the grid system. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was notified immediately.
Lab officials searched but has not been able to locate the other vial.
UTMB said that there was no breach in the facility's security and no indication that any wrongdoing is involved, according to the statement. Weaver said it was possible a vial could have stuck to a figure or a glove and fallen to the floor of the laboratory.
"The only way it could pose a risk is if it were stolen and that's unlikely," Weaver said.
This marks the first time that any vial containing a select agent has been unaccounted for at UTMB, officials said.
"We don't think anything that happened this past week endangers the community," Weaver said. "We think this is an error that any one facility is inevitable and we are going to improve to prevent this in the future."
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