Containment laboratories generally have a requirement to evaluate workers who have had a lab mishap. We had a standard method in our lab for assessing what we called “potential exposures” which we ...

The CDC is asking Congress for $350 million to replace its aging high containment laboratory, which studies some of the world’s deadliest pathogens, according to STAT. Deadly pathogens, such as ...

Suspicions abound that the SARS-CoV2 virus that caused the COVID-19 outbreak may have escaped from a containment laboratory in Wuhan, China, despite scientific experts weighing in that the disease ...

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This session will start by reminding the participants that lab practices are intended to keep the worker safe, buildings are designed to keep the community safe, and that there are often many ways of ...

A report from Frederick’s Containment Laboratory Community Advisory Committee found that the summer shutdown of high-level research at a Fort Detrick laboratory has “likely little risk” to the ...

A government agency that performs high-level biodefense work on Frederick's Fort Detrick campus hopes to relaunch production at two types of containment laboratories in the next two to four months ...

The Federation of American Scientists have a very interesting map for all the hypochondriacs and people living in permanent fear of a deadly virus epidemic. Or a zombie outbreak. These are all the ...

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As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...