Three samples of viruses have gone missing from a Queensland laboratory.
Samples of Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus are still unaccounted for after going missing from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory in August 2023.
The lab has been unable to confirm if the viruses were taken from secure storage or destroyed.
‘With such a serious breach of biosecurity protocols and infectious virus samples potentially missing, Queensland Health must investigate what occurred and how to prevent it from happening again,’ Health Minister Tim Nicholls told the Courier Mail.
However, Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard said the risk to Queenslanders was minimal.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Martin Daubney will lead an Investigation into how the sample went missing.
Samples of Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus went missing from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory in August 2023 and still have not been found
Health Minister Tim Nicholls said the loss of the virus samples represented a serious breach of biosecurity protocols
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