Unwise & Unfortunate

Hey, kids!

Some wacky scientists from Ohio sent out thousands of killer flu virus samples. Whoops! And the World Health Organization issued an alert saying that was a ding-dong thing to do:

"The risk is relatively low that a lab worker will get sick, but a large number of labs got it and if someone does get infected, the risk of severe illness is high and this virus has shown to be fully transmissible," WHO's influenza chief, Klaus Stohr, told The Associated Press.

It was not immediately clear why the 1957 pandemic strain, which killed between 1 million and 4 million people - was in the proficiency test kits routinely sent to labs.

It was a decision that Stohr described as "unwise," and "unfortunate".

Clearly, that official got her P-H-fucking-D in understatement.