London: A prestigious French institute has misplaced about 2,349 vials containing samples of the potentially deadly SARS virus.
The
Paris-based Institut Pasteur, which was among the first to isolate HIV in the
1980s, admitted to have lost the vials in 29 boxes.Despite taking help from
France's drug and health safety agency, the institute has been unable to find
the samples.According to a statement by the institute, researchers realised the
vials containing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) samples were
unaccounted for during a recent inventory, 'The Local' reported.
The
drug and health safety agency spent four days doing an "in depth"
investigation at the unnamed lab, but came up empty handed.The institute,
however, said the missing vials of the virus is no reason for any alarm."The
tubes concerned have no infectious potential," the statement said."Independent
experts referred by health authorities have qualified the risk as 'nil' in
regards to available evidence and literature on the survival of the SAS
virus," it said.
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