The New York Times: Operations can resume at a government tuberculosis laboratory in Atlanta that was shut down this month as part of a moratorium on handling dangerous microbes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
The moratorium, imposed by the agency after two accidents at other laboratories that could have exposed workers to anthrax and the lethal H5N1 flu virus, was lifted at the lab because it has passed safety inspections and its work is crucial to treating drug-resistant tuberculosis cases all over the world, said Thomas Skinner, a C.D.C. spokesman.
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