CDC detects coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes at unlicensed Califonia lab

Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, medical waste and hazardous materials.

The Fresno County Department of Public Health has been “evaluating and assessing the activities of an unlicensed laboratory” in Reedley, the department’s assistant director Joe Prado said in a statement Thursday. All of the biological agents were destroyed by July 7 following a legal abatement process by the county agency.