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Laboratory Safety and Biohazards

This page includes information related to laboratory safety, biohazards and preventative measures.

Herpes B Virus

• B-Virus From Pet Macaque Monkeys: An Emerging Threat in the United States?  
• Current Topics in Primatology: Herpes B Virus  
• Fatal Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (B Virus) Infection Following a Mucocutaneous Exposure and Interim Recommendations for Worker Protection  (MMWR, 1998)
• Guidelines for Prevention of Herpesvirus Simiae (B Virus) Infection  (MWMR, 1987)
• Quiz on Herpes B in Laboratory Primates  (UC-Davis)
• Strategies of Managing Macaque Monkeys and Herpes virus simiae  (B-virus by Julia Hilliard)
• Tragedy at Yerkes: Death by Herpes B  (Emerging Infectious Diseases, Jan-Mar 1998)

Filovirus

• CDC Interim Guidelines -- Ebola-related Filovirus  
• CNN: Does Importing Primate Push Ebola Risk Too High?  
• Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Update: Ebola-Related Filovirus Infection in Nonhuman Primates and Interim Guidelines for Handling Nonhuman Primates during Transit and Quarantine  (MMWR, 1990)
• Filovirus Infection  
• Filoviruses  (by Richard Hatchett)

General Information

• Agents Listed by BioSafety Level  (Univ. of California - Davis)
• CDC Biosafety Documents  
• Occupational Asthma Caused by Orangutan in a Zoo Animal Handler  (Singapore Medical Journal)
• Seroconversion to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus  

General Prevention

• Animal Handler Guides -- University of Wisconsin - Safety Department  
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 3rd ed., NIH, 1993  (Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 3rd ed., NIH, 1993)
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 4th ed., CDC and NIH, 1999  (270-page PDF file, PDF)
• Guidelines for Personnel Protection and Minimum Requirements for Protective Clothing in Animal Facilities  (NIH, March 2005)
• NIH Animal Exposure Surveillance Program  
• NIH Policy Manual: 3044-2: PROTECTION OF NIH PERSONNEL WHO WORK WITH NONHUMAN PRIMATES  
• Nonhuman Primate Biosafety  ( Univ. of Minn. Research Animal Resources)
• Occupational Health and Animals  (Univ. of California - Davis)
• Occupational Health and Safety in the Care & Use of Research Animals  (UC-SF Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Occupational Health and Safety Information for Staff With Substantial Contact with Macaques  (Univ. of California - San Francisco, Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Occupational Health and Safety Information for Staff With Substantial Contact with Non-Human Primates  (Other than Old World Primates, Univ. of California - San Francisco, Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Preventing Asthma in Animal Handlers  
• Proceedings of the 4th National Symposium on Biosafety: Working Safely with Research Animals, 1996  
• Working Safely with Nonhuman Primates Video  (Office of Animal Care and Use, National Institutes of Health)