Friday, May 28, 2010
Safety Rules Can’t Keep Up With Biotech Industry - NYTimes.com
They are the highly trained, generally well-paid employees in the vanguard of American innovation: people who work in biotechnology labs. But the cutting edge can be a risky place to work.The casualties include an Agriculture Department scientist who spent a month in a coma after being infectedby the E. coli bacteria her colleagues were experimenting with.Another scientist, working in a New Zealand lab while on leave from an American biotechnology company, lost both legs and an arm after being infected by meningococcal bacteria, the subject of her vaccine research.
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