What are the dangers to the community if the structural integrity of the facility is compromised by fire or other types of disasters?
The BRL will be a strongly constructed, highly engineered building that is designed to resist natural and man-made disasters. Final design is subject to additional rigorous evaluation by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy, and other funding agencies. If the facility were to sustain both external and internal damage from a disaster, the risk of disease spreading in the environment would be extremely minimal. Biological agents are stored in vials inside well-secured, heavy freezers. The building is equipped with highly sensitive smoke and fire detection systems. The vials are made of crush-proof, resilient polypropylene plastic and sealed with gaskets. Even if the vials somehow opened, (1) biological agents need vectors and hosts — such as mosquitoes or ticks — to grow, move about, and infect humans; and (2) liquid or frozen agents cannot become airborne. As noted above, these agents are stored and handled in minute quantities, and most are killed by light
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