Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...

The "patient biocontainment unit" at Emory University Hospital is one of four facilities in the U.S. specially equipped to handle the most serious... When it comes to deadly, contagious disease ...

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Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital is in the midst of a construction project to build an isolation unit designed to treat patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases, according to a ...