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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daily life as a researcher in the typical high-containment lab facility goes something like this: Arrive early in the morning at a nondescript building. Pass through security. Complete extensive ...

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 Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee is seeking feedback about its desire to schedule an event about lab safety. The intent is to determine if enough interest exists to go forward with ...

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