Monkeys infected after deadly bacteria escapes at Louisiana lab: USA Today

(Reuters) - A deadly bacteria being analyzed at a high-security primate research lab in Louisiana escaped and infected four monkeys on the site, and raised concerns about whether there was any public health risk, USA Today reported. The newspaper said that a federal investigator also became sick a day after entering the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans in January and tested positive for the bacteria, Burkholderia pseudomallei, but it was unclear whether she had been exposed to the bacteria at the center or beforehand. It's very disturbing to us," the center's director, Andrew Lackner, told the newspaper.



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