A daunting challenge was faced when University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers set out to study Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
The deadly virus requires biosafety level 4 containment, and it's carried by ticks. That meant that if scientists wanted to study the transmission of the virus, they had to do something that had never been done before: find a way to work safely with the tiny, tough bugs in a maximum containment "spacesuit lab."
"It was completely new territory ...
A daunting challenge was faced when University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers set out to study Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
The deadly virus requires biosafety level 4 containment, and it's carried by ticks. That meant that if scientists wanted to study the transmission of the virus, they had to do something that had never been done before: find a way to work safely with the tiny, tough bugs in a maximum containment "spacesuit lab."
"It was completely new territory ...