"The Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa is the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times. Never before in recorded history has a biosafety level four pathogen infected so many people so quickly, over such a broad geographical area, for so long."
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Note: Biosafety level 4 is the highest of four biosafety levels, indicating that an agent poses a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections or causea severe to fatal disease in humans for which vaccines or other treatments are not available.
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