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Construction began on Latin America’s first maximum-security biosciences laboratory.
Biosafety level 4 laboratories are designed to work with deadly airborne pathogens for which there are no treatments, and other similarly dangerous materials: There are 51 around the world, mostly in North America and Europe.
The Orion facility in Brazil will open in 2026, and a virologist told Nature that it was sorely needed: Latin America is “sitting on a powder keg” of pathogens, especially as the Amazon rainforest is cleared and humans come into more and more contact with animals and their previously unknown viruses: “We need a laboratory like this so we can give quick responses.”
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Publish date : 2024-08-28 21:18:00
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