I saw the headline on the Washington Post today, and had a flashback to the 80 wedding invitations I calligraphed about a month ago. The point being, when you write 80 addresses, you are not going to write an 81st by mistake.
How do you even print out 3700 addresses by mistake, affix 3700 labels by mistake, draw 3700 samples of whatever by mistake, pack 3700 samples by mistake, and never wonder about any of the 3700 being the correct thing?! I guess I'm woefully ignorant of the lab procedure, but even so...
Asian Flue was classified Biological Safety Level 2, which is both A)nothing special and B) NOT CORRECT AT ALL.
So it's not that they accidentally sent a shipment. It's that they accidentally shipped the wrong set of viruses, because the ones they wound up sending out were improperly labelled.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-13 03:13 pm (UTC)How do you even print out 3700 addresses by mistake, affix 3700 labels by mistake, draw 3700 samples of whatever by mistake, pack 3700 samples by mistake, and never wonder about any of the 3700 being the correct thing?! I guess I'm woefully ignorant of the lab procedure, but even so...
(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-13 03:24 pm (UTC)They just sent the *wrong* flu virus.
Asian Flue was classified Biological Safety Level 2, which is both A)nothing special and B) NOT CORRECT AT ALL.
So it's not that they accidentally sent a shipment. It's that they accidentally shipped the wrong set of viruses, because the ones they wound up sending out were improperly labelled.