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Almost 10,000 emergency responders mistakenly exposed to deadly ricin during training over the last 5 years

Because of yet another mix-up with bioterror pathogens, a federal terrorism response training center in Alabama says it mistakenly exposed more than 9,600 firefighters, paramedics and other students to a deadly toxin over the past five years, USA TODAY has learned. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Center for Domestic Preparedness blames an outside laboratory for a series of shipping errors since 2011 that resulted in the first-responder training center using in its classes a potentially lethal form of ricin powder, a poison made from castor beans that is capable of killing at small doses. Ref. USAToday.

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Germ warfare and toxic handling isn't being handled well in this country and its very worrisome that something like this can go on for so long unchecked.