The secret, unlicensed laboratory had vessels of human blood and numerous infectious diseases including herpes, hepatitis and HIV.
reports. In addition, investigators found numerous vessels containing blood and other body fluids, as well as — scarily — diseases such as COVID-19, hepatitis, herpes and more.
The bizarre details of the story make it an extreme outlier in the buttoned-up world of medical research — but whether misconduct at the facility was the result of mismanagement or something more lurid remains to be seen. The warehouse tenant, an outfit called Prestige BioTech, had apparently taken over a defunct business, Universal Meditech Inc., and moved its assets into the warehouse, according toWhen investigators busted the lab, they found 36 refrigerators, incubators and improperly stored hazardous medical waste — besides the alarming amount of infectious diseases.
Investigators believe the facility was working on producing its own COVID and pregnancy tests, according tothat they have disposed of all the icky biohazard stuff, in addition to the surviving mice being euthanized. Aside from the extreme weirdness of the whole situation — unlicensed clinics doing sketchy biological research? — the lab's secrecy and its subsequent bust could well become fodder for bizarre new medical conspiracy theories. And that's the last thing we need.
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