High containment laboratories at CDC – ffty years of excellence

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology.
• Description:
  This year marks the 50th anniversary of CDC’s rich history of laboratory work investigating the world’s deadliest pathogens.
  
  In 1969, CDC opened its first permanent high-containment laboratory (HCL) to protect scientists while they worked with dangerous infectious pathogens. The original HCL was established in response to an outbreak of a new hemorrhagic fever reported in lab workers in Europe in 1967—it would come to be called Marburg virus and was eventually traced back to imported African green monkeys. The opening of CDC’s new lab also coincided with the emergence of another new pathogen in West Africa, Lassa fever, another viral hemorrhagic fever capable of causing severe illness in people. Over the next decade, additional viruses would be identified for work in this special lab, like Ebola.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events CDC--history Containment Of Biohazards History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Laboratories
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:788618f17372795ad2a80331659709f647beb883164daa7708d9a66b7ca4f4b9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105139/cdc_105139_DS1.pdf
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