The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens
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"Human error can lead to incidents or accidents that release a deadly virus into the community. According to my research, data from two sources show that human error was the cause of 73.5% and 79.3% of incidents leading to potential exposures in BSL-3 labs"
"A needlestick occurred in the ABSL3+ laboratory while the researcher was attempting to collect tissue culture supernatant..A decision was made to home quarantine the individual"
"Also, a spill of avian H5N1 occurred in the facility..[R]esearcher was described as having..exposed skin between..tyvek suit..and..shoe covers began. While it was reported that none of the spilled material landed on..bare skin,..having bare skin in..ABSL3+..was unacceptable"
"The effluent decontamination system..which handles all the effluent from..three high containment suites..shut down resulting in water backup in..BSL-3Ag suite and..ABSL-3 suite...."
"....The situation was primarily caused by a staff member’s failure to turn off the sink faucet in the BSL-3 suite..resulting in an inability of the EDS system to handle the volume..A secondary cause was the failure of a high-water level alarm linked to the EDS to be sent"
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