Dr. Rice was to have had a role training workers for the proposed high-security laboratory.

The city has opened a high-security laboratory to help detect and respond to biohazards and infectious diseases.

They said there had never been a documented case of illness in a community caused by an escaped pathogen from a high-security laboratory.

He said volunteers had no training in fighting a fire at the high-security laboratory.

Even with recent hiring in the high-security laboratory, it will take several weeks to reach full operating potential.

The laboratory is crucial to the Zaire case, in part because there are only five such high-security laboratories in the world.

The tube car arrived at an armored high-security laboratory, and the deaf-mute motioned for them to exit the vehicle.

Its high-security laboratory is used by government scientists to research foreign diseases that are highly contagious among animals, like foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever.

The answer must lie within the high-security laboratory.

Dr. Frieden said the city's investigation had been aided by a $16 million high-security laboratory that opened in 2004.