Lawrenceville, Pa.
The Allegheny County Health Department will open a $5.6 million biocontainment laboratory in Lawrenceville, Pa., in February of 2009. Part of the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network, the BSL-3 facility will support testing of specimens and samples that may contain infectious diseases or potential bioterrorism agents such as anthrax. The two-story laboratory is part of the Clack Health Center.
