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Quotes About Biohazard

Leaning over, he finally got a good look. There was a warning symbol plastered across the top, the kind that indicated the contents were some sort of biohazard. A label below the symbol said: Virus VC321xb47 Highly Contagious 24 Darts, Extreme Caution Mark suddenly wished he hadn't touched the thing.
~ James Dashner
There are four biosafety levels, BSL-1 to BSL-4.)
~ Douglas Preston
Suddenly he goes into the last phase—the human virus bomb explodes. Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. They say that the victim has "crashed and bled out." Or more politely they say that the victim has "gone down.
~ Richard Preston
An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.
~ Richard Preston
The black vomit is not really black; it is a speckled liquid of two colors, black and red, a stew of tarry granules mixed with fresh red arterial blood. It is hemorrhage, and it smells like a slaughterhouse. The black vomit is loaded with virus. It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of a military biohazard specialist. The
~ Richard Preston
It could be said that without sticky tape there would be no such thing as biocontainment
~ Richard Preston
Britain's Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens had lately reclassified herpes B into biohazard level 4, placing it in the elite company of Ebola, Marburg, and the virus that causes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. National
~ David Quammen
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
~ Barton Gellman
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
~ Richard Preston
We must be careful, though, that we don't confuse the issue by contaminating the planet with life from Earth. Similarly, we must be very careful not to bring back any Martian life. We would have no resistance to it, and it might wipe out life on Earth.
~ Stephen Hawking
bio-safety rules were ten times as strict, or supposed to be. Maybe plutonium was bad, but it couldn't jump out of a tank and grow by itself.
~ Bruce Sterling
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
~ Richard Preston