Activity 1- Read and analyse the following statement. Identify whether it is BSL- 1, BSL- 2, BSL- 3, BSL- 4. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
____1. It is used to study infectious agents or toxins not known to consistently cause disease in healthy adults.
____2. Used to study moderate-risk infectious or toxins that pose a risk Accidentally inhaled, swallowed, or exposed to the skin.
____3. Used to study infectious agents or toxins that may be transmitted through the air and cause potentially lethal infection through inhalation exposure.
____4. Used to study infectious agents or toxins that pose high risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infectious and life-threatening disease for which no vaccine or therapy is available.
____5. Laboratories include hand washing, sinks, eye washing stations in case of accident and doors that close automatically and lock.
____6. Indigenous or exotic agents, agents that present a potential for aerosol transmission, and agents causing serious or potentially lethal disease.
____7. Dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high risk of aerosol-transmitted lab and life threatening disease.
____8. Agents that present minimal potential hazard to personnel and the environment.
____9. Sample organism like influenza, HIV, Lyme Disease.
____10. Sample organism like Escherichia coli (E.coli).
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