There are about a million things wrong with this.

1. It's old news. It's not "breaking." This is referring to an incident from 5 years ago. Any harm that would have been caused has long since run it's course.
2. We have no link to the actual report. We're just taking this yokel's word for it. USAMRIID is one of the world's premier biological labs, one of only a tiny handful of BSL4 labs capable of handling ebola. You don't get BSL4 certified without a half a dozen redundant safety systems in place specifically to reduce risk in the event of things like this. We're not getting the full story from this Twit's twittering.
3. We have no actual reports of harm from 2018 that would indicate this leak actually amounted to anything.

Even without going through a long list of lab safety measures that certainly would have been in place to ensure that live anthrax and ebola did not escape, we have nothing here to indicate any actual harm was done. It's a "near miss." Redundant safety systems worked and mitigated the harm, which is why you're hearing about it 5 years later from a technical report referenced in a book released in 2018 instead of on live, breathless, minute-to-minute "news" coverage like we get with the "mass shootings."

Stop the fear porn.

There are about a million things wrong with this.

1. It's old news. This is referring to an incident from 5 years ago. Any harm that would have been caused has long since run it's course.
2. We have no link to the actual report. We're just taking this yokel's word for it. USAMRIID is one of the world's premier biological labs, one of only a tiny handful of BSL4 labs capable of handling ebola. You don't get BSL4 certified without a half a dozen redundant safety systems in place specifically to reduce risk in the event of things like this. We're not getting the full story from this Twit's twittering.
3. We have no actual reports of harm from 2018 that would indicate this leak actually amounted to anything.

Even without going through a long list of lab safety measures that certainly would have been in place to ensure that live anthrax and ebola did not escape, we have nothing here to indicate any actual harm was done. It's a "near miss." Redundant safety systems worked and mitigated the harm, which is why you're hearing about it 5 years later from a technical report instead of on breathless live, minute-to-minute "news" coverage.

Stop the fear porn