By Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - When a Maryland lab accidentally sent a batch of live anthrax to a children’s hospital in California in 2004, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a team of investigators to make sure such an error never happened again. This month, the CDC is investigating a nearly identical anthrax mixup — within its own highly secure Atlanta laboratories. In the intervening decade, leaders in the field have found a possible answer, so far rejected by the CDC, in a new process called biorisk management. The private lab that sent the live anthrax in 2004 has broadly adopted biorisk management, and Emory University, located a mile away from the CDC in Atlanta, has become the first academic lab to adopt it.
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