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• Train a full-time technical staff dedicated to work with highly dangerous pathogens to carry out experiments directed by research scientists who will not need to present in the BSL-4 facility.

Edward J. Sylvester: Dangerous Acquaintances Edward J. Sylvester 2011

• Do so only in a BSL-4 lab in a remote location, where an escape would pose the least risk to population areas.

Edward J. Sylvester: Dangerous Acquaintances Edward J. Sylvester 2011

Clad in pressurized moonsuits in the high-security, BSL-4 lab, CDC microbiologists determined within a few hours that the scab contains virus from the smallpox vaccine but didn't contain the deadly disease virus itself.

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And Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Lassa fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever are dealt with in BSL-4 labs.

Inside America's Biological Warfare Center 2009

The death occurred only months after a US scientist at the Army's BSL-4 lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland made the same mistake... and survived.

The Best Dangerous Science Jobs: Hurricane Hunter, Volcanologist 2007

The death occurred only months after a US scientist at the Army's BSL-4 lab at Fort Detrick in Maryland made the same mistake... and survived.

The Best Dangerous Science Jobs: Hurricane Hunter, Volcanologist 2007

Because of the high case fatality rate, the ability to spread easily by human-to-human contact, and the potential for aerosol release, Lassa is classified as a BSL-4 (bio safety level 4 agent) and is included on the NIAID Category A select agents list of potential bio-terrorism threats.

THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

A researcher who wanted to work in a high containment BSL-4 laboratory would have to undergo additional education and training to qualify for a BSL-4 license.

Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2009

There is currently no laboratory facility in the U.S. with capabilities for BSL-4 research on large livestock.

Media Newswire 2009

The facility has served the nation for over 50 years, but is not appropriate for zoonotic disease research that must be conducted at Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4).

Media Newswire 2009