Over three hundred vials of deadly virus samples go missing from lab | 10 Dec 2024 | Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health department — to launch an investigation into what’s being described as a “major historical breach of biosecurity protocols,” according to the online media statement. It was reported that 323 vials of multiple infectious viruses — including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus — went missing from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory in August 2023… “The pathogens reported missing are all high-consequence and could pose a threat to the public,” he Sam Scarpino, Ph.D., director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, told Fox News Digital.