These dynamics will require that our design community, which has been focused mainly on the institutional and commercial markets, acquires the knowledge and develops the skills necessary to function in this new environment. A common feature of the biosafety laboratory is the biological safety or biosafety cabinet (BSC). Although many are familiar with the chemical fume hood, the BSC may be more of an enigma.
Another scientist, Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts, was not as fortunate and died in 1910 from typhus while studying the disease through a primitive safety cabinet. Typhus was a worldwide scourge that killed 30,000 of Napoleon's soldiers during his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812, and 62,000 of the pursuing Russian soldiers also fell to the disease.