Umberto Bacchi
International Business Times
April 15, 2014

Coronaviruses have a halo, or crown-like (corona) appearance when viewed under an electron microscope.
Coronaviruses have a halo, or crown-like (corona) appearance when viewed under an electron microscope.
A prestigious research institute in France said it had lost thousands of tubes of samples of the deadly Sars coronavirus.

A routine inventory check at Paris’ Pasteur Institute revealed that 2,349 tubes containing fragments of the virus responsible for the deaths of 774 people in 2002 were missing, the centre named after French chemist Louis Pasteur said.

The institute was quick to reassure the public and said that the contents of the missing vials had no infectious potential. They contained only part of the virus and had no ability to spread.

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