Biohazards in the Primate Laboratory
 

• Agents Listed by BioSafety Level (from the University of California - Davis)
• B-Virus From Pet Macaque Monkeys: An Emerging Threat in the United States?
• CDC: Filoviruses in Nonhuman Primates: Overview of the Investigation in Texas
• CDC Interim Guidelines -- Ebola-related Filovirus
• CNN: Does Importing Primate Push Ebola Risk Too High?
• Current Topic in Primatology: Herpes B Virus
• eMedicine: Herpes B
• Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Update: Ebola-Related Filovirus Infection in Nonhuman Primates and Interim Guidelines for Handling Nonhuman Primates during Transit and Quarantine (MMWR 39(2);22-24,29-30, January 19, 1990)
• Fatal Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (B Virus) Infection Following a Mucocutaneous Exposure and Interim Recommendations for Worker Protection (MMWR, December 18, 1998 / 47(49);1073-6,1083)
• Filovirus Infection
• Filoviruses (by Richard Hatchett)
• Guidelines for Prevention of Herpesvirus Simiae (B Virus) Infection (MWMR 36(41);680-682,687-689, 1987)
• Herpes B in Laboratory Primates (Quiz from Office of Environmental Health & Safety, University of California, Davis)
• Prevention of B Virus Infection
• Seroconversion to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus
• Strategies of Managing Macaque Monkeys and Herpes virus simiae (B-virus) (by Julia Hilliard)
• Tragedy at Yerkes: Death by Herpes B (Emerging Infectious Diseases (January-March, 1998)

 
Laboratory Safety and Biohazards
 

• Animal Handler Guides -- University of Wisconsin - Safety Department
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 4th ed., CDC and NIH, 1999 (270-page PDF file)
  • Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 3rd ed., NIH, 1993
• CDC Biosafety Documents
• Minimum Requirements for Protective Clothing in Animal Facilities (ARAC Guidelines, NIH OACU)
  • Protective Clothing Requirements for Personnel in Nonhuman Primate Facilities
• NIH Animal Exposure Surveillance Program
• NIH Policy Manual: 3044-2: PROTECTION OF NIH PERSONNEL WHO WORK WITH NONHUMAN PRIMATES
• Nonhuman Primate Biosafety (University of Minnesota Research Animal Resources)
• Occupational Asthma Caused by Orangutan in a Zoo Animal Handler (Singapore Medical Journal)
• Occupational Health and Animals (University of California - Davis)
• Occupational Health and Safety in the Care & Use of Research Animals(UC-SF Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Occupational Health and Safety Information for Staff With Substantial Contact with Macaques (University of California - San Francisco, Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Occupational Health and Safety Information for Staff With Substantial Contact with Non-Human Primates (Other than Old World Primates) (University of California - San Francisco, Laboratory Animal Resource Center)
• Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates (Full text from National Academies Press, Committee on Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Primates, National Research Council, 2003)
• Occupational Primate Disease Safety Guidelines for Zoological Institutions (from AAZV)
• Preventing Asthma in Animal Handlers
• Proceedings of the 4th National Symposium on Biosafety: Working Safely with Research Animals, 1996
• Working Safely with Nonhuman Primates Video (Office of Animal Care and Use, National Institutes of Health)

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