Smallpox Outbreak on TV Show

The episode of this show about a neuroscience researcher in Nevada who attempts to enhance the performance of soldiers contains misleading information about laboratory testing as well as perpetuating the general public's belief that animals are often treated "inhumanely" in biomedical research.

Dr. Hood holds up an RPR card with smears of whole blood in each circle, which supposedly demonstrates the results of "blood chemistries" and shows that a monkey in the research lab is AB positive. (He claims that humans are the only primates who can have an AB positive blood type; I also have to wonder whether this is actually true.)

I had never watched an episode of the "11 Hour" prior to the show in question.  I specifically watched it because it dealt with Smallpox.  I was absolutely appalled at the number of glaring technical errors in the show. As if this were not bad enough, the episode to place in my home state, PA and had no knowledge of the Commonwealth's plans for bioterrorism and pandemic response.  All of us at the Bureau of Labs were terrible disappointed in the technical error, not to mention that at one point the "CDC" official advised the group to "lie to the press".  Shows like this just further the stereotype of the "mad scientist" and cause distrust of the scientific and medical communities!