(The Hill) – A researcher at a Merck facility outside of Philadelphia found several vials that were labeled “smallpox,” according to a local TV station. The vials were found in a freezer on Monday ...

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESS Newswire / January 17, 2026 / Umbrella Labs today announced expanded availability of MOTS-c in a 10 mg vial format sold strictly for laboratory research use only, supporting ...

GALVESTON - The Galveston National Laboratory will adopt a newly developed method to track and inventory vials of potentially deadly pathogens as a result of a vial going missing last week that ...

Update: The CDC says tests confirm the vials did not contain smallpox virus. Read the latest story here. Our earlier story is below. Philadelphia — Federal health authorities on Wednesday confirmed ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says several questionable vials found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania did not contain variola virus, the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday determined that vials found at a Pennsylvania facility this week with labels reading “smallpox” did not contain the virus that causes ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health made an unpleasant discovery last week as they cleaned out an old laboratory: The lab contained vials of the smallpox virus, previously unknown to ...

On July 1, workers at the National Institutes of Health notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they discovered vials containing smallpox in a cold storage room of a Food and Drug ...

Vials labeled with "smallpox" were found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where vaccine research is conducted, but it is unclear why the vials were there, according to the ...