RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Wow When Covid first started there was a scandal about a Chinese scientist who had been working at the Infectious Disease Research Center in Manitoba and had taken samples(?) from the lab in Manitoba to the lab in Wuhan. Not sure how all that washed out or how the story ended but that lab is also affiliated with University of Manitoba so there could be some high powered research available here.
The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) is part of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health, health emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
NML is located in several sites across the country including the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health (CSCHAH) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. NML has a second site in Winnipeg, the Wilt Infectious Disease Research Centre on Logan Avenue which serves as a hub for HIV research and diagnostics in Canada. The three other primary sites include locations in Guelph, St. Hyacinthe and Lethbridge.[citation needed][1]
The CSCHAH is a biosafety level 4 infectious disease laboratory facility, the only one of its kind in Canada.[2] With maximum containment, scientists are able to work with pathogens including Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever.[citation needed]
A little back ground:
After some debate, the spot chosen for the site was a city works yard near to the Health Sciences Centre (a major teaching hospital), the University of Manitoba's medical school, and other life science organizations. Construction of the facility that came to be named the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health (often referred to locally as "the Virology Lab") began with an official ground-breaking in December 1992.
The joint venture design team of Toronto-based Dunlop Architects and Winnipeg-based Smith Carter Architects and Engineers visited 30 laboratories to seek best practices in containment and design. Construction was largely complete by the end of 1997 with the first programs beginning in the spring of 1998 and all laboratories coming on line after that. The official opening took place in June 1999.[3]
Following the SARS outbreak in 2003, the Public Health Agency of Canada was formed in 2004[4] to provide a stronger focus on public health and emergency preparedness in the country. It is a member of the federal Health Portfolio (along with Health Canada, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and other organizations).