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CDC requests funds to build new maximum-security laboratory

The CDC's maximum-security lab building is showing signs of age — and the agency is asking Congress to fund a new one.
A CDC researcher works in a BSL4 laboratory, where the most dangerous pathogens are studied.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking Congress for money for a new building to house the laboratories that work on the deadliest pathogens known to humankind. The existing building, which went into service in 2005, will need to

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