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'The Hot Zone' — Touring one of the CDC's Biosafety Level 4 labs

Bonnie Petrie
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The CDC’s Aaron Villarma leads a tour of a decommissioned BSL-4 lab in Atlanta.

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In 1989, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention commissioned its first two Biosafety Level 4 labs — better known as BSL-4. Host Bonnie Petrie recently toured one of those labs in Atlanta on a fellowship from the Association of Health Care Journalists and recorded the journey.

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