• The Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network is an international consortium of Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories. Its members are National...
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    an enclosed laboratory facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 (BSL-1) to the highest at level 4 (BSL-4). In the United...
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    National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (category Biosafety level 4 laboratories)
    people. The facility is a constituent member of the Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network, and is currently led by Alfonso Clavijo. The NBAF was...
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  • Hyacinthe and Lethbridge.[citation needed] The CSCHAH is a biosafety level 4 infectious disease laboratory facility, the only one of its kind in Canada. With...
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  • National Institute of Virology (category Biosafety level 4 laboratories)
    having P-3 biosafety levels for handling microorganisms of highly infectious nature is being established at Pashan, 11 km off the main laboratory at Pune...
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    SARS (category Zoonotic bacterial diseases)
    Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the...
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    a zoonotic event. No evidence was found that SARS-CoV-2 or a progenitor virus existed in a laboratory, and there was no evidence of any biosafety incident...
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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (category Biosafety level 4 laboratories)
    cut as an unnecessary management layer. As of 2013, the CDC's Biosafety Level 4 laboratories were among the few that exist in the world. They included one...
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    Zaire ebolavirus (category Biosafety level 4 pathogens)
    as a select agent, World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogen (requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent containment), a US National Institutes of Health/National...
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    479–490. doi:10.1002/jmv.25707. PMC 7166986. PMID 32052466. "Interim Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines for Handling and Processing Specimens Associated with...
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  • strengthening laboratory protocols around the world Work on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was carried out at biosafety level 2 with level 4 being...
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    Nipah virus (category Biosafety level 4 pathogens)
    Nipah virus (Henipavirus nipahense) is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very...
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  • animal diseases classed as Level 4 are zoonotic, meaning that they can transfer to humans. Staff wear pressurized biosafety suits which are disinfected...
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    Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogens, requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent containment, laboratory researchers have to be properly trained in BSL-4 practices and...
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    office tracks outbreaks of disease. The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases would be cut by $65 million, or 11 percent. The center...
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    transmission has biosafety implications because a major concern associated with the risk of working with emerging viruses in the laboratory is the generation...
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    who gave an interview to The Washington Times about the biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A scientist from Hong...
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  • of glanders in animals is performed at an appropriate biosafety and containment level laboratory by isolating the organism from blood, sputum, urine, or...
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  • instance. Depending on the biosafety level (BSL) also known as the pathogen or protection level, there are different levels of biocontainment and approvals...
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  • TB, and hepatitis B and C, as well as from several economically costly zoonotic diseases (that is, those transmitted from animals to humans). The region's...
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    of gathering near real-time biological data that relates to human and zoonotic disease activity and threats to human or animal health, in order to achieve...
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  • "Simply put, the Nation does not afford the biological threat the same level of attention as it does other threats." The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense...
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    emergence/resurgence in Sub-Saharan African urban areas". Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity. 2 (2): 58–63. doi:10.1016/j.jobb.2020.10.002. Kotar SL...
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    reviewed safety-by-design technology- and policy-based approaches to ensure biosafety and biosecurity to prevent engineered pathogen pandemics, including digital...
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    that its isolation and cell culture are done only in a laboratory facility with biosafety level 3. Unlike other bacteria which can easily grow on different...
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  • review safety-by-design technology- and policy-based approaches to ensure biosafety and biosecurity to prevent engineered pathogen pandemics, such as sequence...
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