Word: biohazard
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...vicinity, were drawing water from the family well to wash vegetables and brush their teeth. Two hours after the accident, teenager Yoshitaka Nanbara wandered to a friend's house, just a few yards from the facility's back fence. The two youngsters spent an hour or so playing Biohazard on a Sony PlayStation. Loudspeakers mounted on telephone poles around the town, built to warn of nuclear disaster, were silent...
Harvard students who still watch television have no doubt seen the newest commercials from this chip-manufacturing giant. MMX technology is promised to "makes your multimedia dance," by the announcer in Intel's SuperBowl spot, as people in biohazard-looking suits gyrate in what I suppose were the innards of a computer somewhere...
...Building 15, a massive edifice that sits a bit apart from the other structures. It has only one entrance, monitored constantly by cameras and motion sensors. Its door opens only to those carrying specially authorized magnetic cards. There is reason for such caution: Building 15 houses the cdc's biohazard containment laboratories...
...following stories). Sabia is almost certainly carried by rodents and is not contagious by casual contact (the afflicted scientist evidently got it from tiny bits of tissue that flew into his unprotected eyes or nose or both). The Yale lab, moreover, is classified as a level-3 biohazard facility, meaning, among other things, that it is kept at negative air pressure. Outside air can flow in through tiny cracks, but air flows out only via heavily filtered vents...
Yale officials said last week that they had never contemplated shutting down the research lab entirely. What they might have to consider, though, perhaps in consultation with the CDC, is treating Sabia virus as a so-called class 4 biohazard from now on, which means researchers will be able to handle it only inside a glove box or while wearing a space suit. Lassa and Guanarito are deemed class 4 already. The CDC might also do well to institute a rule that any unclassified infectious agent should be considered class 4 until proved otherwise...