>let's cross fingers this doesn't become the obvious "vaccine manufacturers are spreading viruses" that anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists need.

Well, considering the historical behavior of for profit enterprises, it's not something that would be beneath them.

If it wasn't for tight regulation and the huge media backslash they'd be pouring the stuff by the tons. But in any place/country/era where they could bypass such stuff, businesses have done so.

Even if that were true wouldn't you still want the vaccine to protect you from the virus these guys are supposedly unleashing?

Or if one employee involved happends to be muslim, that this become labelled a terrorist act.

Well as much as I hate it, it is indeed a case of a vaccine manufacturer spreading the virus it makes vaccines against. Let's just hope that there is a a deep inquiry and that they do more than just fire the employee who did a mistake.