CDC headed to losing credibility, biosafety experts charge

It's no surprise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was not eager to make public a scathing report from a panel of outside expert advisers that condemned the agency's laboratory safety practices – declaring it "is on the way to losing credibility" after a series of near-calamities involving anthrax, the H5N1 influenza virus and Ebola.

It's no surprise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was not eager to make public a scathing report from a panel of outside expert advisers that condemned the agency's laboratory safety practices – declaring it "is on the way to losing credibility" after a series of near-calamities involving anthrax, the H5N1 influenza virus and Ebola.

An 11-member external laboratory safety workgroup (ELSW) of the advisory committee to CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden delivered the report...

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