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Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory Tour

Changing Room

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Changing room

Researchers must leave their clothes behind in a changing room, take a decontaminating shower, and put on laboratory clothes (even socks and underwear are provided) or a biocontainment suit before entering the lab.

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