The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...

Kathmandu, May 10 -- The National Public Laboratory (NPHL) has set up a high-containment unit, a facility designed to prevent the risk of highly contagious viruses spilling over into communities. The ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the ...

In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...