Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for being here today, because we have heard some other things from different witnesses.
Mr. Ghalami, you brought up something that I found to be quite an interesting way of putting things. You said “you get used to your bugs all the time”. I remember years ago working on a construction site, where there were guys who were explosive experts, who got used to working with their dynamite. You'd see these guys and you'd think they're handling the dynamite quite clumsily, but they get used to it. But it's still dynamite, and it's still explosive.
We've had other witnesses who say this level two stuff isn't that bad, but could you let us know what can happen with some of these level two pathogens? You mentioned that HIV is a level two pathogen, and you said that salmonella and different strains of E. coli were too. What can happen to the public if these things aren't controlled?