What makes a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory different from other BSL-3 laboratories?
There are hundreds of biocontainment facilities around the country of varying sizes and levels that exist for various purposes. (Hospitals, for example, often have specific laboratories designed to contain infectious materials.) These facilities, many in urban areas, have a superb record of safe operations, both for their workers and their neighbors. However, most of these facilities are not qualified to support research as outlined by the National Institutes of Health. A shortage remains of appropriate facilities to meet accelerating concerns about emerging and re-emerging diseases and agents of bioterrorism.
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