That would mean turning China's 26 million piggeries into veritable
biocontainment facilities.
Perlin is the former executive director of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School's Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) and former director of the Rutgers Regional
Biocontainment Laboratory, one of 13 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-designated national centers for pathogen research.
Ready for the challenge: Dobbins selected as home for new
biocontainment system [cited 2018 Nov 8].
DHVI is home to one of the twelve NIH-constructed Regional
Biocontainment Laboratories in the United States which has a comprehensive safety and operations program to provide state-of-the-art Biosafety Level 2 and 3 facilities for priority pathogen research.
"Similar to pilots, for our folks working
biocontainment units, there is no room for error.
Need for
biocontainment facilities remains another hurdle.
The need to protect scientists and other clinical laboratory staff began to take shape in the beginning of the 20th century when Robert Koch constructed the first
biocontainment device after he recognized that germs could be floating in air.
A biosafety level (BSL) is a set of
biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility.
Biosafety Level 4 is the highest level of
biocontainment for a laboratory and is required for the study of the most hazardous biological agents.
It will be a state-of-the-art,
biocontainment laboratory for the study of diseases that threaten both America's animal agricultural industry and public health.
Associate Director of the
Biocontainment Unit at University of Nebraska Dr Ted Cieslak presented a lecture on Anthrax.