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One of the elite group of centres around the world, equipped with laboratories ranging from biosafety level 2 to level 4 (designed to accommodate the most basic to the most deadly infectious organisms, including Ebola) The National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg holds open house Saturday celebrating its 15th anniversary. Twelve-year-old Fatih Oladeji originally from Nigeria listening carefully to Research Scientist Geoff Soule as he talks via video conferencing to visitors of the lab from level 4 about what it's like to work in biosafety. Oct 17, 2014 Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press