biosafety level 4

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   exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy

   Broaderbiosafety level

Questions about biosafety level 4

What does biosafety level 4 mean?

biosafety level 4 means "exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy".

Is biosafety level 4 a common word?

biosafety level 4 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.