What other precautions have you taken to prevent Yersinia pestiss escape?
The work is done inside of multiple layers of containment. The plague bacteria are only handled inside a biosafety cabinet (which protects the laboratory workers and the laboratory). As an additional precaution, the laboratory has a separate air handling system that is designed to prevent lab air from flowing out of the facility and into the surrounding areas, the air is filtered before being exhausted from the building, and the exhausted air is not drawn back into the building with supply air. Finally, laboratory workers are wearing protective gear. All items that enter the lab are decontaminated or sterilized before being removed. Equipment is tested and re-certified regularly. 10) OK, OK. It won’t get out. But let’s just say it did — hypothetically. What would happen? Probably nothing. Yersinia pestis needs a host to stay alive, so it would need to come into contact with a potential carrier almost immediately. Even if it did find a host — such as a rodent — direct human contact w
