Word: biohazard
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...Access is strictly limited; TIME was allowed to visit the cave because its keepers feel they finally have the outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers enters the cave every two weeks--dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks--to remove filaments from the walls. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says a member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, which the French Ministry of Culture set up in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they...
...cave complex. Time was allowed to visit the cave because its keepers feel they finally have the outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers comes into the cave every two weeks - dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks - to remove filaments from the walls. Another team visits regularly to audit the cave's sanitary condition using laser imaging. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says one member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, set up by the French Ministry...
...they draw from the Turkish experience? YOU'VE GOT TO MOBILIZE ASAP If you wait until people get sick, it can already be too late. Last week, teams of Turkish health workers in battered vans began to mount a nationwide chicken hunt, going house-to-house in white biohazard gear to search out sick birds. But in another snowy village outside Van, the Karatay family was still waiting for its fowl to be collected, a week after reporting the deaths of two chickens. "I do not understand why the officials take so long to get here if this disease...
Last year, NIH hosted the first global biosecurity conference in Las Vegas, bringing together researchers, physicians, and biohazard “first responders,” and this October, HMS and the School of Public Health will collaborate for a second Bio-Security conference in Washington...
Also carried: Portable light Tape or paint for marking targets Flare Biohazard suit...