A deadly virus vial containing Guanarito virus is missing from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

The virus can cause hemorrhagic fever, affecting the circulatory system, cause bleeding, fever and result in death. However officials say there's no reason to believe there's a threat to the public.

The university staff hopes the missing deadly vial has been simply misplaced rather than to be stolen by someone with malicious intent. The vial was noticed to be missing during a routine internal inspection last Wednesday and Thursday.

The university personnel said Saturday that there has been no breach in the security it's Galveston National Laboratory and no indication of wrongdoing. Also suspects of the missing vial to have been destroyed during the lab's cleaning process however the investigation continues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was immediately notified after the vial was discovered to have been missing.

The medical branch says the virus, is native to Venezuela is transmitted only through contact with Venezuelan rats not from person to person.

"The results also suggested that bodily secretions and excretions from most GTOV-infected short-tailed cane mice and most PIRV-infected Alston's cotton rats may transmit the viruses to humans," says the CDC.

The virus is not believed to be able to survive in the U.S. rodents or be transmitted person to person.