(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

Vials labeled 'smallpox' that were discovered in a freezer in a Philadelphia laboratory don't contain any traces of the deadly virus, federal health officials reveals. The Centers for Disease Control ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled “Smallpox" in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research.

Lee la historia en español aquí. UPDATE: The CDC announced Thursday that the vials did not contain the virus known to cause smallpox but instead contained the virus used in the smallpox vaccine. More ...

A bottle of smallpox vaccine is held by a doctor at CDC headquarters in Atlanta in 2003. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) WASHINGTON — The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are ...

Frozen vials with “smallpox” labels found at a Pennsylvania lab contain the virus used in the vaccine for the virus and not the virus that causes the disease, public health officials said Thursday.

An investigation is underway involving the FBI after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found 15 vials labeled “smallpox” or “vaccinia” at a Merck lab in Montgomery County, ...

(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

PHILADELPHIA — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled “Smallpox” in a freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research. The ...

The FBI is investigating how several vials labeled “smallpox” came to be in a Pennsylvania vaccine research facility, The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are looking into the 15 ...