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Technical Input on Any Additional Studies to Assess Risk Associated with Operation of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University A Letter Report (2008) / Chapter Skim
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... reconvenedits Committeeon Technical Input on the NIH's Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment and Site Suitability Analyses [DSRASSA] 2 to provide you and your blue ribbon panel with further technical input on the scopeand designof any additional studiesthat may be neededto assess risk associated with the siting and operationof the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL)
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... The committee suggests two-phaseanalysis.The first phaseis risk assessment a basedon a variety of plausible scenariosdesignedto allow a realistic assessment risks associated of with the NEIDL in generaland to illuminate the comparativerisks to the communitiesat the three sites evaluatedin the DSRASSA. In a secondphase,a highly unlikely but still credible high-consequence event could be analyzed.In addition, the committee recommends that discussionsof potential agentreleaseinclude proceduralor workpractice failures, including thosewhich leadto worker exposures and infections; biocontainment-system equipmentfailures; and an appropriatearray of malevolent and actions.
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... What Would Be the Consequences? IfNIH decidesthat thereis a compelling rationalefor the useof mathematical modelingin any future risk assessments, the modelingmust be donecredibly, transparently, to professional and standards an by experienced teamof epidemiologicalmodelersandmicrobial risk assessors.
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