IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY EVENING, a delivery truck carrying 930 doses of swine flu vaccine was left idling outside a flu clinic while the driver was inside.  When he came back out, the truck was gone along with all its contents.

Officers found the abandoned Ryder rental truck less than an hour later with the vaccine apparently intact. As they investigated, a witness pointed to a 38-year-old leaving a nearby liquor store and identified him as one of  three men that were in the truck.  The man, who already has a criminal record, was arrested, but the police are still looking for the other two.

WISN-TV

WISN-TV adds:  “It was human error. It was a major faux pas by the moving company and we summarily terminated their contract,” Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan Baker said.

Baker said the truck driver went into the Sara Scott Middle School to pick up supplies from the vaccine clinic held there on Thursday, leaving the truck unattended and running.

The vaccines were leftovers from Thursday’s clinic. All 930 were still in the back of the truck when police found it, but the commissioner said they’ll be trashed since he can’t be sure they weren’t tampered with.

WBKO-TV Ch. 13 has a brief video report: