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 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...

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 ...

Dressing for work is not always a simple task for University of Rochester research scientist Marty Pavelka. When he uses UR’s high-containment lab — equipped with a special ventilation system in a ...

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the final years of the Trump administration was interviewed for Fox News exclusively by medical contributor Dr ...

Members of the Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee are devising a strategy to persuade state lawmakers to pass legislation next year that would require labs housing dangerous substances to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Democrat and Chronicle was one of 12 Gannett newspapers that partnered with a USA Today investigation, Biolabs in Your Backyard, about the concerns and dangers that can accompany biomedical ...

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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 ...