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CDC Laboratories – A Key Line of Defense
Podcast: CDC Laboratories – A Key Line of Defense
More than fifteen hundred scientists fill the lab benches at CDC, logging more than four million hours each year. CDC’s laboratories play a critical role in the agency’s ability to find, stop, and prevent disease outbreaks. This podcast provides a brief overview of what goes on inside CDC’s labs, and why this work makes a difference in American’s health.
Lab Safety
- Media Statements
- 2/4/15: CDC Releases Report on Recent Lab Incident
- 12/24/2014: Lab Safety Report on Ebola Virus Transfer
- 8/15/14: CDC Progress on Laboratory Safety
- 7/24/14: New safety protocols in place, first CDC lab resumes transfer of inactivated materials out of high-containment laboratory
- 7/24/14: CDC announces the formation of an external laboratory safety workgroup
- 7/8/14: CDC media statement on newly discovered smallpox specimens
- 7/1/14: CDC update on potential anthrax exposure
- 6/19/14: CDC lab determines possible anthrax exposures: staff provided antibiotics/monitoring
- Press Release
- Media Advisory
- Infographics
- Press Briefing Transcript & Video
- Reports
- Page last reviewed: August 12, 2015
- Page last updated: August 12, 2015
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