24.06.2006

Two workers at Britain’savian influenza testing centre needed emergency treatment after being jabbed accidentally by needles infected with the deadly virus.
The women worked in labs at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, Surrey, analysing birds contaminated by the H5N1 virus.
The first technician was working with dead duck samples on June 14 when a needle pierced her protective clothing.
She was placed in quarantine after being given a dose of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.
In the second blunder on June 20, a worker was handling samples of the virus and accidentally jabbed herself. She was rushed into an isolation unit and given emergency drugs.