BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and AnswersBIOSAFETY A...
BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY
Questions and Answers
Application of safety precautions that reduce a laboratorian's risk of exposure to a
potentially infectious microbe and limit contamination of the work environment and,
ultimately, the community.
✓ ~~~ BIOSAFETY
BIOSAFETY
"Protect ___:
✓ ~~~ "Protect People Against Bad Bugs"
Bad bugs are your ___agent.
✓ ~~~ microbiological or biohazardous
Biosafety is ONLY concerned with the protection of the ____ from these agents
✓ ~~~ laboratory workers
The discipline addressing the security of microbiological agents and toxins and the
threats posed to human and animal health, the environment, and the economy by
deliberate misuse or release.
✓ ~~~ BIOSECURITY
BIOSECURITY
"Protect___"
, ✓ ~~~ "Protect Bad Bugs Against Bad People"
True or False
Smallpox does not have strains or sample kept in high biosecurity facilities
✓ ~~~ FALSE ,o there are still strains or samples that are kept in high biosecurity facilities.
probability of a security breach from ____ happening is relatively low than a breach
of a _____.
✓ ~~~ biosecurity
biosafety
anthrax leak where
✓ ~~~ Soviet City of Sverdlovsk
Sverdlovsk known called as
✓ ~~~ Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg is located where?
✓ ~~~ 850 miles EAST of Moscow
anthrax leak happened when?
✓ ~~~ April 2, 1979
anthrax leak initially attributed to __
, ✓ ~~~ tainted meat
anthrax leak affected and how many died, when was the death
✓ ~~~ 96 people
64
first one died four days after and the last on died 6 weeks later
according to them tainted meat caused the outbreak
✓ ~~~ Soviet officials
Soviet officials claimed that the deaths were caused by "_____,
✓ ~~~ intestinal anthrax from tainted meat"
· They suspected that the "outbreak was caused by an accidental release of Anthrax
from a suspected biological weapons facility in the city."
✓ ~~~ President Carter Officials
It wasn't until ___ years later, in __, that the Soviet President,___, admitted, without
going into details, that the Anthrax Outbreak was the result of ___ at the facility
✓ ~~~ 13
1992
Boris Yeltsin
military activity
, the Western Scientists concluded that the outbreak was indeed caused by release of
an ____ at the military facility
✓ ~~~ aerosol of Anthrax pathogen
___ allowed a team of __ scientists to go to Sverdlovsk to investigate the outbreak.
✓ ~~~ Russia
Western
- Refers to the measures that would keep these microbiological or biohazardous
agents from getting into the community of environment
✓ ~~~ Containment
Provides immediate protection to workers in the biological laboratory from exposure
to chemical and biological hazards.
✓ ~~~ Primary Containment
Intended to protect the laboratory worker, the community, and the environment from
unintended contamination with a biological hazard.
✓ ~~~ Secondary Containment
Secondary Containment
Facility: ___
Facility___
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