Vials labeled 'smallpox' found at vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania, CDC says

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6. Oh yeah

I expect a number of research labs (and that might even include at universities and teaching hospital systems) may have some "lost or misplaced" vials way way way in the back of some cold storage - maybe even in a box where the label disintegrated or the container was misidentified (if it had multiples virus samples in it) - and it were just left like that.

As a scientist myself, I actually would prefer that some tiny sample remain under very very strict security (or find some way to completely genetically map it if that hasn't happened yet with the latest tech), so that should something wild happen way in the future, where it might be needed to come up with some new vaccine or at least positively ID it if someone contracted it, you have a "reference standard".