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Inside the US Army's Ebola Lab in Liberia
- stevethomasII 12y agoGreat article. Thank you for show a sneak peek of what kind of facilities are out there to help fight this outbreak. It really matters.
- hga 12y agoDon't take this too seriously, e.g. from the very beginning: "is a functioning CDC Biosafety Level 3 laboratory, the standard to do infectious disease research in the United States." That's a standard to do infectious disease research ... and not the one required for Ebola, which is BSL-4; a lot of testing labs are trying for ~BLS-3 because it's cheaper and much more quickly achievable. And because researchers often work with large and/or concentrated quantity of the pathogens they're researching, vs. the much small quantities involved in just testing samples.