The National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC)’s vivarium is a support facility to
supply appropriate departments with animals for research and diagnostic purposes. Currently NCDC has
been actively working to bring its laboratory animal research and vivarium facilities to international
standards. This has resulted in a new vivarium equipped with modern equipment and technologies,
located within the Lugar Center, that meets strict international standards.
In a related development, NCDC is working on an updated scientific research support strategy. Approval
of this strategy is expected to gradually decrease the diagnostic work load of the vivarium as new
diagnostic methods, not requiring the use of animals in experimentation, are developed and implemented.