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SECURITY TIGHT LAB IN GABON FACILITATED FOR EBOLA STUDIES.
The well secured lab in Gabon will study Ebola and other dangerous viruses.
The lab is in Gabon, one isolated building behind an electrified fence, under round-the-clock security video cameras. The locked-down P4 lab will handle the world’s most dangerous viruses, including Ebola.
Only four people, three researchers and a technician, have access to go inside the P4. The lab is one of the only two in all of Africa that can handle deadly Ebola, Marburg and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever viruses. While the other is in Johannesburg.
No Filming the ultra-high-security lab or even taking photos and the handful of people with access inside have security badges. Backup power plants ensure an uninterruptible electricity supply. They filter the air they breath in there.
In conclusion, when going into the P4 lab to work on a sample of suspect virus such as Ebola they wear a head-to-foot bio-hazard suit. The special clothing is destroyed as soon as the test is done. Hence, extreme measures are in force to prevent any risk of contamination, with potentially disastrous effects.