Phone +61 3 5227 5000 | Founded 1985 | |
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Address 5 Portarlington Road, Newcomb VIC 3219, Australia Parent agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Similar Institute for Frontier Materials, CSIRO Manufact ‑ Waurn P, CSIRO Manufact ‑ Fibre Pr | ||
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Victoria, Australia is a high security laboratory, run by the CSIRO for exotic animal disease diagnosis and research. The lab is one of four Biosafety Level-4 labs in the country.
It opened in 1985 costing $185 million, built on Corio Oval.
In November 2012 it delivered an experimental vaccine to help protect horses against the deadly Hendra virus.
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Australian Animal Health Laboratory Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA