Reply #80: That appears to be incorrect based on other reports.

[Nothing Without Hope]

The vials were mislableled as H3N2 strain instead of the H2N2 pandemic strain. Some lab people at Meridian Bioscience also said they thought it was an innocuous virus.

For example,

...The above description indicates that the 1957 H2N2 pandemic virus was mislabeled at some point between 1957 and 2004.  This created confusion about the origins of the virus shipped out since last fall as part of a lab proficiency test.  The recording error is supported by the paperwork associated with the shipments, which indicated the virus was H3N2.  Since H2N2 was virtually eliminated from circulation in humans in 1968, it should not be in a library of viruses from 2000....

(This excerpt is from the article cited in this post (reply #46) of this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3479258&mesg_id=3481999)

But there is still a great deal of confusion that needs to be worked through to find out the answers about what happened, how it happened, and if possible WHY it happened. And there is also the question of accounting for and destroying ALL the pandemic flu virus that has been distributed or is otherwise vulnerable or dangerous.