Researcher believed killed by lab bacteria

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Researcher believed killed by lab bacteria

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US centers for disease control experts are seeking to confirm what they already suspect.

04 May,2012 10:35 am

A young research associate killed by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease is believed to have contracted the bacteria from the San Francisco lab where he was working on a vaccine against it, public health officials said on Thursday.U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts are seeking to confirm what they already suspect: that Richard Din, 25, died Saturday in an unusual case of a scientist being fatally infected with an agent from his own laboratory.