Yes. I think it's important to recognize that these level 2 pathogens can be obviously pathogens. But you have a greater risk of getting an E. coli infection barbecuing chicken at home than a technologist has working in a laboratory. I mean, these are organisms that are in our environment. That's why we isolate them in our laboratories, because they cause disease. But the disease comes from their natural environment.
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