{"id":169079,"date":"2023-08-05T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cdc-detects-coronavirus-hiv-hepatitis-and-herpes-at-unlicensed-california-lab"},"modified":"2023-08-05T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:25:35","slug":"cdc-detects-coronavirus-hiv-hepatitis-and-herpes-at-unlicensed-california-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cdc-detects-coronavirus-hiv-hepatitis-and-herpes-at-unlicensed-california-lab","title":{"rendered":"CDC detects coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes at unlicensed California lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cdc-detects-coronavirus-hiv-hepatitis-and-herpes-at-unlicensed-california-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, medical waste and hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Public Health Department has been \u201cevaluating and assessing the activities of an unlicensed laboratory\u201d in Reedley, the health department\u2019s assistant director, Joe Prado, said in a statement Thursday. All of the biological agents were destroyed by July 7 following a legal abatement process by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evaluation required coordination and collaboration with multiple federal and state agencies to determine and classify biological and chemical contents onsite, in addition to assessing jurisdictional authority under this unique situation,\u201d Prado said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, medical waste and hazardous materials. The Fresno County Public Health Department has been \u201cevaluating and assessing the activities of an unlicensed laboratory\u201d in Reedley, the health department\u2019s assistant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,19,1496,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-law","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}