Nehru Zoological Park to have South India’s First BSL-3 Lab

Nehru Zoological Park of Hyderabad to have south India first Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) lab, a high-security laboratory that could change the way diseases are detected, treated and prevented within its animal collection.

The BSL3 lab facility will also take up research on zoonotic diseases, which transmit between animals and humans, and vice versa.

The lab will



be developed by upgrading the zoo’s existing mini-laboratory with state-of-art equipment and infrastructure, changing it into a sophisticated bio-safety research and diagnostic unit.

Discussions are underway with the Telangana Veterinary Biological and Research Institute, PV Narasimha Rao Telangana Veterinary University and other government research institutes for establishing the lab.