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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...

The University no longer operates any Biosafety Level 3 laboratories following changes to SARS-CoV-2 research containment ...

The CDC reports 6,617 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the U.S., as of Aug. 3. At least six of those cases are in Idaho, according to state and local public health agencies. Idaho’s first case was ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Did you know the largest collection of viruses in the world is protected and studied inside a massive biodefense lab. And guess what, the largest high-containment lab of its ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the ...

A £1.7m laboratory building which will investigate infectious diseases has opened at the University of Warwick – helping to tackle some of the most globally important human diseases and prepare for ...

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 ...