The purpose of this Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) policy is to ensure that researchers working with dengue virus receive information about the risks of working with this virus and also to provide a copy of the laboratory acknowledgment form for personnel working with this virus.
This policy applies to all members of the UW–Madison IBC, UW-Madison Office of Biological Safety (OBS), UW–Madison Principal Investigators (PI), and UW–Madison employees and staff, along with any additional personnel listed on the Biosafety protocol, as applicable.
This policy requires researchers who conduct activities with dengue virus to consider IBC recommendations for work with the virus and to complete the “Understanding the Risk of Working with Dengue Virus” acknowledgment form.
Also please see information pertaining to dengue under the UW-Madison, Occupational Health Program (OHP), “Dengue Exposure Medical Response Guidance for the University of Wisconsin–Madison” (OH-GUI-033) and OHP Medical Response Plans for Infectious Agents used in Research on Campus, accessed on the OHP webpage (EH&S Home > Occupational Health > Resources > Medical Response Plans).
