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>I don't think it was a modern BSL-4 standard lab, but smallpox escaped and killed someone in the UK. That was in 1978! I believe we didn't have biosafety leve
by a_bonobo 3y ago
>I don't think it was a modern BSL-4 standard lab, but smallpox escaped and killed someone in the UK.
That was in 1978! I believe we didn't have biosafety levels back then in the UK.
Edit: at least the BSL levels came 6 years later, but the UK has different names for those
>Over the next two decades, growing CDC, NIH, and OSHA participation in ABSA annual meetings further solidified biosafety guidelines, culminating in the 1984 publication of the first edition of the text, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL). The BMBL guidelines laid out four levels of increasingly intensive safety practices, equipment, facilities, and engineering controls to be employed in the safe handling of microbial agents: Biosafety Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 (BSL-1, -2, -3, and -4),
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099915/