Biosecurity

The National Academies: Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

This is a micrograph of a blood smear containing Yersinia pestis plague bacteria. Note the characteristic bipolar, "safety-pin"-like appearance of the Y. pestis organisms. People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium, or by handling an infected animal. Content provider: CDC/Dr. Jack Poland

This 2005 photograph of the CDC’s Dr. Terrence Tumpey, one of the organization’s staff microbiologists and a member of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), showed him examining reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus inside a specimen vial containing an orange-colored supernatant culture medium. Content provider: CDC. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This picture is a photomicrograph of mild meningitis along with hemorrhage and the presence of Bacillus anthracis in a case of fatal human anthrax. Content provided: CDC/Dr. Marshal Fox

This is a picture of Brucella melitensis colonies. Content provider: CDC/ Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory

This is a photograph of Arnold Steigerwalt, a research chemist with the CDC’s Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch (MSPB) in the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), shown here as he was performing a DNA-DNA hybridization analysis in one of the CDC’s laboratories. Content provider: CDC/ Maryam I. Daneshvar, Ph.D. Photo Credit: James Gathany

This photomicrograph shows hepatitis caused by the Lassa virus, using toluidine-blue azure II stain. Content provider: CDC/Dr. W. Winn

Links

Currently, the most complete set of links relating to biosecurity can be found at the Federation of American Scientists’ “Biosecurity and Biodefense Resource” website.

Please note that The National Academies is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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