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To accelerate innovation, the CDC should ease limits on which labs can handle the coronavirus

Not long after SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in December 2019 as the cause of an alarming cluster of severe pneumonia cases in central China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Devdiscourse

Amit Shah Lays Foundation Stone of India’s Second BSL-4 Bio-Containment Facility in Gandhinagar

Shri Shah highlighted that this will be India’s second BSL-4 laboratory, after the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune ...
Campus Safety Magazine

GAO Findings: 2 BSL 4 Labs Don't Have Enough Security

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its evaluation of the security measures deployed at the nation’s five biosafety level (BSL) 4 laboratories. Two of the labs ...
Business Insider

Only a quarter of the 59 labs that handle the world's deadliest pathogens have top-level biosecurity, experts warn. They fear lax rules could lead to another pandemic.

There are 59 biosafety level 4 labs (BSL-4) in the world, but only a few scored high on safety. A new report revealed only a quarter of countries with these labs have high biosecurity scores. The labs ...

All about India’s first state-funded BSL-4 lab for deadliest pathogens in Gujarat

Planning for this lab began in mid-2022, and its foundation stone was laid more than three years later, on Tuesday. The ...