FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Review of the 2014 Discovery of Vials Labeled "Variola" and Other Vials Discovered in an FDA-Occupied Building on the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Campus

U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 12/13/2016 This nine-page report provides information about the discovery of vials labeled as Variola (the virus that causes smallpox) during cleanup and inventory on July 1, 2014, in preparation for a move of the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) laboratories located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD, to FDA ' s White Oak campus in Silver Spring, MD. It reflects interviews with FDA and NIH employees associated with the cold storage room in which the vials were discovered, a site visit to the NIH campus, and a thorough review of all available reports and documentation relating to the discovery. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - July 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news