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The Friday afternoon before Labor Day in 2011, a researcher at @MountSinaiNYC was in a Manhattan lab when a ferret — inoculated with 1918 influenza — bit hard enough to pierce through two pairs of gloves, breaking the skin of his thumb. https://t.co/7qMfmuGJWx — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022

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At @WUSTL, the accident went unreported for four days. In other cases, accidents went unreported for months or even years, either because the affected researchers stayed quiet or because staff overlooked the incidents. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022

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The flu is typically transmitted through respiratory droplets, and an animal bite is unlikely to infect a scientist. But with a virus as devastating as 1918 flu, scientists are not supposed to take any chances. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 1, 2022