{"id":52452,"date":"2025-06-29T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=52452"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:30:53","slug":"mobile-biosafety-level-3-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mobile-biosafety-level-3-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Biosafety level-3 Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mobile Biosafety level-3 Laboratory Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is in the process of adding to its Mobile Biosafety level-3 (MBSL-3) laboratory capacity to enhance India\u2019s outbreak response capabilities, and strengthen public health delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mobile Biosafety level-3 Laboratory<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as<\/span> <b>Rapid Action Mobile BSL-3 Advanced Augmented Network<\/b> <b>(RAMBAAN).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile Biosafety level-3 (MBSL-3) laboratory\u00a0is a fully <\/span><b>indigenous and sophisticated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mobile BSL-3 \u2018laboratory on wheels\u2019, first deployed in response to the <\/span><b>Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala in 2023.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is developed under the <\/span><b>Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in collaboration with Klenzaids Contamination Controls Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s classified as a <\/span><b>Type-IV Rapid Response Mobile Laboratory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the WHO\u2019s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network classification.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Mobile Biosafety level-3 Laboratory<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to maintain a negative air pressure environment, and is equipped with an advanced <\/span><b>heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (HVAC) system with HEPA filters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also features a double door autoclave and a <\/span><b>biological liquid effluent decontamination<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (BLED) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) fogger system for biological waste management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MBSL-3 was validated by ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune in 2022-2023, including onsite and on-field validation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It enhances India\u2019s <\/span><b>outbreak response capabilities, and strengthen public health<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delivery, especially in remote and inaccessible areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/icmr-increasing-mobile-lab-capacity-to-enhance-indias-outbreak-response-capabilities\/article69735862.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mobile Biosafety level-3  Laboratory is also known as Rapid Action Mobile BSL-3 Advanced Augmented Network (RAMBAAN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1165,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-52452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mobile-biosafety-level-3-laboratory","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}