biological risk
Pathogen exposure danger
Biological risk refers to the potential for harm from living organisms or their products—bacteria, viruses, toxins, or genetically modified organisms.
The term appears in workplace safety, laboratory protocols, and public health contexts: The lab was classified as high biological risk.
Broader usage encompasses threats from bioterrorism or pandemic disease: Climate change increases biological risk by expanding the range of disease-carrying insects.
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- incubation periodTime before symptoms emerge
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
pandemic · contact tracing · virus · bacteria · infection · contamination · biohazard · quarantine · exposure · toxin · spillage · laboratory · mutation · wet market · transmission · vector · super spreader · disease
biological riskradiation risk
Danger from energetic particles
nuclear risk · chemical hazard · cyber risk · environmental risk · financial risk
biological riskbiological safety
Protection from living hazards
biosafety · biosecurity · sterility · asepsis · decontamination
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