Chapter 40‘WE FOUND THE SOURCE, Will. A laboratory. Most likely a protocol error,’ said Jim.
‘Quick work. Fill me in.’
‘The Infectious Disease Center, the full Portuguese name will be in the report. They had hundreds of old samples in minus sixty freezers in the basement. They assumed they were mostly plant samples and some bacteria. The director and her staff had not previously looked at the list that the two inventory takers compiled. They just scanned it. Variola isn’t there.’
‘If it was there.’
‘We will know for certain when we find the inventory takers.’
‘I wonder how many more smallpox samples are still in similar freezers around the world?’
‘Our best estimate would probably be too low,’ said Jim.
‘Any others on the inventory list that we should be concerned about?’
‘I don’t
