Agency Halts Risky Research on Microbes at Texas A&M.

The article reports on the cease order from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to Texas A & M University at College Station. The university reportedly disclosed to the CDC that it had failed to report of two biological-warfare research accidents involving laboratory workers. Both accidents allegedly caused low-risk pathological exposure to several laboratory workers. The first accident resulted in exposure to the animal disease called brucellosis. The next accident caused exposure to Q fever, another animal disease.