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, ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research on coronaviruses and other harmful pathogens has increased in laboratories across the world — and not just any labs. Work of this sort often requires ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis in 1988, the estimated number of polio cases was 350,000; in 2000, approximately 3000 cases were reported [1]. Two World Health ...

Dr. J. Craig Reed is the newest member of the Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee. Reed is president and owner of Inspirion Biosciences, a consulting firm that specializes in risk management ...