CHICAGO (Reuters) - It is a Friday the 13th Dr Paul Meechan will not soon forget.
On that night last week, bioterrorism researchers at the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered they had mistakenly sent live anthrax virus out to fellow scientists in two lower-security clearance labs at the agency, instead of what they thought were harmless samples of the deadly pathogen.
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