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| == List of Biosafety Facilities == | |||
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| <blockquote>The following is a list of notable biosafety facilities, levels 3 and 4 are automatically accepted because of the nature of their work</blockquote> | |||
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| "List of Biosafety level 3 and 4 facilities" IS CORRECT; Since "List of biosafety facilities" (i.e., Levels 1-4) would be thousands of names!</blockquote> | |||
| I am defending the first name for the following reasons: the title of this article is "Biosafety level" from which it discusses all four levels of biosafety, the list should not be constrained to simply levels three and levels four—if the facility is notable, it should be listed. Please remember that the article, specifically the hidden comments are not locations to house discussion. ] (]) 03:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Note: The original version of this article consists of excerpts taken from the public domain CDC page at http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4s3.htm
Consistency
Terminology is inconsistent and as a result it is unclear if "BSL4", "P4" and "L4" and different names for the same thing or not. Please: a) use one name to indicate "BSL4" or b) indicate the meaning of "P4" and "L4" and the differences when compared to "BSL4"
- Please remember to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). BSL4, P4, and L4 are used synonymously; the primary difference is the context it is used in. The United States prefers to use BSL (Biosafety Level), however France and several other European speaking countries prefer P4: Protection (or pathogen) four. A terminology section would be helpful, although it would be a bit of a challenge to cite since few sources would discuss this small inconsistency. ChyranandChloe (talk) 22:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
List of Biosafety Laboratories / Zoonotic disease reference laboratories / Human & Environmental health surveillance
Have you considered the Microbiology Department of the University of Hong Kong and the work of Peiris, Guan, Chen et al. on RNA viruses to promote human and environmental health, their biosafety level, and impact of their work on the understanding of zoonotic disease outbreaks or the standard of journals where their publications have been accepted, to add to your lists? 06:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Boston's inclusion on the list of existing labs
The list of bsl4 laborotories includes one at boston, however the text states that the lab has not been constructed yet, and is only proposed, therefore i am removing it. :þ clsours ¡Æ! 19:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Russian L4 Labs?
Are there no Level 4 labs in Russia?
Or even China for that matter? The list seems very incomplete. 134.117.166.74 21:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- VEKTOR institute added.
examples?
Could examples of diseases be given for each level? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crd721 (talk • contribs) 10:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
- Diseases don't have biosafety levels, they have risk groups. Here are some examples of risk groups.
- 1. Streptococcus pneumoniae
- 2. Influenza
- 3. HIV
- 4. Ebola
- BSL is related to risk group, but there's really no direct correspondence. The BMBL (Ch. 3) gives HIV as an example of a virus suited to BSL-2, even though it's risk group 3. The St. Louis encephalitis virus is also risk group 3, but it's given as an example of something appropriate for BSL-3 instead of BSL-2.
- CRGreathouse (t | c) 16:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
- Institute for Animal Health has a BSL-4 international reference laboratory at Pirbright in Surrey. But haven't put it down because there are, I think, some differences to the BSL-4 spec. for human pathogens, which ought to be qualified. --Aspro 11:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
yeah examples would be good. also, some of the grammar is rough. 'level 5' mentions not contaminating the sample itself - but this is something scientist do at levels 1-4 . . . maybe clarification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.223.228 (talk) 17:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Italics?
Why is it all in italics? The article is almost painful to read, but i dont know how to change it back to normal 138.253.248.125 09:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
List of Biosafety Facilities
The commented out text is dispuated between
The following is a list of notable biosafety facilities, levels 3 and 4 are automatically accepted because of the nature of their work
and
"List of Biosafety level 3 and 4 facilities" IS CORRECT; Since "List of biosafety facilities" (i.e., Levels 1-4) would be thousands of names!
I am defending the first name for the following reasons: the title of this article is "Biosafety level" from which it discusses all four levels of biosafety, the list should not be constrained to simply levels three and levels four—if the facility is notable, it should be listed. Please remember that the article, specifically the hidden comments are not locations to house discussion. ChyranandChloe (talk) 03:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)