TORONTO — High-level containment labs at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg are being expanded to allow scientists increased capacity to research some of the world’s most ...

Inside Winnipeg’s level 4 laboratory By: Anne Hawe - Community Correspondent Posted: 11:34 AM CDT Monday, May. 28, 2018 ...

TORONTO — High-level containment labs at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg are being expanded to allow scientists increased capacity to research some of the world’s most dangerous ...

The center is the first such laboratory in the world to have research and diagnostic programs for both human and animal diseases. The heart of the facility is what is known as a Biosafety Level 4 ...

It will be the only non-government Level 4 facility in the country, part of the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), which currently has a Level 3 lab.

The lab - administered by Health Canada — cost $172 million and took 10 years to design and build. It took two years alone to build the concrete box that encloses the Level-4 lab, which occupies ...

They were subsequently fired in January 2021. The Winnipeg lab is Canada’s only Level 4 laboratory, designed to deal safely with deadly contagious germs such as the Ebola virus.

Moving VIDO to containment level four would give Canada its second such facility — one is currently housed at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

Dr. John Copps says the employee was working with six infected pigs Monday and noticed a split in the seam of his protective suit during decontamination after working in the Level 4 lab in Winnipeg.

Scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng worked in the Level 4 virology facility at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab (NML), which is equipped to deal with the most serious ...

Canada will soon have a second laboratory capable of working with the most dangerous pathogens in the world — home to Canada's Centre for Pandemic Research.It will be the only non-government Level 4 ...