Health committee  I have to disagree with you. We do worry about chicken contaminated with salmonella, and certainly the people who get sick do worry about it. One of the major differences in laboratory environments versus level 2 organisms in the environment is that you take those level 2 organi

Health committee  Let's distinguish between bacteria and viruses, for instance. You have different temperature requirements. You have different requirements. You have viruses in special culture flasks that you grow them in. For instance, if you were to encounter HIV, which is a virus, in its natu

Health committee  Very briefly, our university operates one containment level 3 laboratory that works with various agents that are on the international list of warfare agents. Some, if not the majority, of research with those agents even in Canada is funded through the United States Army Medical R

Health committee  Thank you very much for having me here today. I did not prepare extensive briefing notes as my colleague did, but I would like to tell a little bit of my story. I was hired by the University of Calgary over 23 years ago. I became a biological safety officer shortly thereafter.