Hundreds of deadly virus samples have vanished from an Australian lab in a ‘major breach’ of biosecurity. Yesterday, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls has announced that 323 vials of live viruses are now unaccounted for. These include nearly 100 vials of hendra virus, two vials of hantavirus, and 223 vials of lyssavirus – all of which are extremely deadly for humans.

Queensland authorities insist that while the samples could be weaponised, this is ‘not something an amateur does’. The samples went missing in 2021 but investigators only confirmed the breach in August 2023.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14172087/Virus-samples-missing-lab-Australia-major-biosecurity-breach.html

 

SO this happened in 2021 and was discovered in 2023 but they only decided to tell the public in December 2024?