Containment Levels -Question

Tim Fitzmaurice tjf11 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Tue May 23 08:37:24 EST 1995


On Fri, 19 May 1995, Ken Navarre wrote:

> 
> This from a previous post:
> 
> "I think that Ebola could be safely handled with P3 containment or even 
> carefully followed P2 conditions. BL4 isn't perfect, just read about hole 
> in glove incidents."
> 
> For those laypersons out here, could someone post a brief description of 
> the different containment levels that are used in labs/research facilities?
> Or, a place to find the information.
> 
> Thanks for the time and info.
Well it would be a pain to type in extracts from the docs, but if anyone 
has a fax number I could send them such an extract that lists the primary 
requirements for containment, in the UK, to loook over.

Tim



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