Swine flu scare in Switzerland: Container with virus explodes in train - Bild.de
According to police sources, a technician from the National Centre for Influenza in Geneva was travelling to Zurich carrying eight glass containers, five of which held the swine flu virus.
The containers holding the virus were commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health for the Geneva Centre in order to develop a test to detect swine flu. The vessels were, according to reports, securely packaged three times and hermetically sealed and cooled with dry ice.
The packaging of dry ice, however, was clearly not done properly, as pressure built up in the container during the journey. At 6.39 pm, shortly before the train arrived at Freiburg (Fribourg) station, there was an explosion.
One passenger suffered slight injuries. The technician gathered up parts of the container and warned the conductor. The police stopped the train just before Lusanne train station to attend to the 61 passengers in the carriage.
Then came the all clear. According to police it the containers were transporting the non-deadly strain of the virus, not the same as the strain that has killed more than 100 people in Mexico. The virologist from Geneva, from whose laboratory the tank came, arrived at the scene and insisted that there was no risk to humans.
Swine flu scare in Switzerland: Container with virus explodes in train – Bild.de.
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