The CDC is asking Congress for $350 million to replace its aging high containment laboratory, which studies some of the world’s deadliest pathogens, according to STAT. Deadly pathogens, such as ...

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, ...

Suspicions abound that the SARS-CoV2 virus that caused the COVID-19 outbreak may have escaped from a containment laboratory in Wuhan, China, despite scientific experts weighing in that the disease ...

A report from Frederick’s Containment Laboratory Community Advisory Committee found that the summer shutdown of high-level research at a Fort Detrick laboratory has “likely little risk” to the ...

TIRUPATI: In a major boost to India’s epidemic preparedness and infectious disease research capacity, the Indian Institute of ...

We live in a world full of dangerous health threats, from Ebola to Zika to highly pathogenic influenza. It’s not a stretch to imagine pandemics with potential to kill millions of people globally. This ...

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A government agency that performs high-level biodefense work on Frederick's Fort Detrick campus hopes to relaunch production at two types of containment laboratories in the next two to four months ...

On weekday mornings, Kimberly Dodd, a virologist and veterinarian, drives to a marina in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She parks alongside her colleagues’ cars and, flashing her badge at the guards in a ...

The CDC reports 6,617 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the U.S., as of Aug. 3. At least six of those cases are in Idaho, according to state and local public health agencies. Idaho’s first case was ...

Covid might not have come out of a medical research lab, but it raises some urgent questions about how those facilities operate. Credit...Illustration by Rachel Levit Ruiz Supported by By Jon Gertner ...