[bgill]

UTMB is on Galveston Island which could be quarantined if need be and the natives didn’t raise much of a ruckus. San Antonio, no way. What’s the skinny on the others?

[Smokin' Joe]

The operational ones were in the first part of the list. I am not sure what progress has been made on the others, but I suppose we might find out with individual websearches, by facility. Note some had been used as level 3 instead of level 4.

I reposted an article link from the HVAC people (post 2549, this thread) on what comprises a level 4 setup--it is pretty involved, from a standpoint of design and implementation of that design during construction.

Anything less is, well, less.

I don't see just converting some private room to that standard, so we've been lied to again.

[Smokin' Joe]

USAMRIID New building Ft. Detrich, 800,000 sq ft. total, 17,000 sq ft. BSL-4

Article aobut groundbreaking in 2009.

Estimated completion in 2014: Officials Break Ground for New USAMRIID Building Project

[Smokin' Joe]

USAMRIID Old building: — Biological Safety at USAMRIID — With regard to BSL-4 laboratories, USAMRIID had 9,312 entries during 2013, with a total of 38 incidents and no Potential Biological Exposures (PBE). The 2013 incident rate for BSL-4 laboratories was 0.41 percent.

More info at the link.

[Smokin' Joe]

Here are a few links I managed to scrounge up: The Mid Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (MARCE)

The MARCE supports a two-site Non-Human Primates Core Facility (“NHP Core”) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the University of Pittsburgh’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL). Optimal utilization of non-human primates for biodefense and emerging infectious disease research requires a facility whereby animals are housed in appropriate biocontainment (animal biosafety levels 2 and 3)...

NIAID, Hamilton Montana

different URL from Federation of American Scientists website

UTMB

State Approves NEIDL Biosafety Level 3, 4 Research and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) (Boston University Medical Center).

CDC (Atlanta)

The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)

NBAF (National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility), Manhattan Kansas

The Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services lab (part of the Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia) in Richmond, VA

EpidemiologicalSupportGroup