Today in History – March 7: Nebraska Medicine opens biocontainment unit

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – On this day in 2005, officials at Nebraska Medicine unveiled its biocontainment unit.

The facility is designed to handle patients with highly contagious diseases like smallpox and anthrax.

The unit was activated in the fall of 2014 to treat American citizens with Ebola who had been medically evacuated from Africa…

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