Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Tight regulation

We are working on fish virus, but the regulation for human pathogen will be applied to our laboratory. A inspector came to our lab today and he said there was a suit against UCD. A woman worked at UCD medical center for a week had cancer and she insisted it was due to the viral infection during the intern. Actually the cancer was detected several years after the intern, so everybody doubts the connection between her cancer and the intern. In any case, UC doesn't want to repeat it. I understand what they are thinking, but we are working on fish and I've never heard any pathogen that infect human. A lot of people catch fish and bring them to their home, but it's safe unlike other mammals. Anyway, I will have to put "bio hazard stickers" on my work bench...

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