World BSL Labs — 82 High-Containment Lab Campuses in 31 Countries | Free Color-Coded KMZ for ATAK, TAK Aware & Google Earth

Ask where the world's maximum-containment labs are and you get a PDF table or a rumor. Neither loads on a map. This is one Google Earth and ATAK layer of public high-containment labs. Campus pins, not floor plans.

WHY IT'S IN THE SHOP

A lab makes the news and the first two questions are where it is and what it works on. Each pin has a card that answers both: operator, city, containment level, known public research, and a status note where the status is public. The card is inside the file, so it opens with no signal.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 82 PINS, 31 COUNTRIES, 1 FILE

• 9 U.S. BSL-4 campuses: CDC in Atlanta, the integrated research facility at Fort Detrick, USAMRIID, the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, the Galveston National Laboratory, the Boston University NEIDL, the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, and NBAF in Manhattan, Kansas. NBAF is marked built, not registered for select-agent BSL-4 work. Fort Detrick's integrated research facility carries a reported 2025 pause.
• 13 U.S. NIAID regional BSL-3 labs.
• 32 named overseas high-containment campuses, including Winnipeg, Geelong, Doherty, Porton Down, Pirbright, Lyon, IRBA, Berlin Seestrasse, Hamburg, Insel Riems, Marburg, Spallanzani, Solna, Spiez, Těchonín, Budapest, Pécs, Wuhan Zhengdian, Harbin, NIID Murayama, Nagasaki, Pune, Bhopal, Osong, NICD Johannesburg, CIRMF Franceville, VECTOR at Koltsovo, and Sergiev Posad.
• 8 public anti-plague institutes, marked BSL-3 class, not BSL-4: Irkutsk at 78 Trilisser Street, Microbe in Saratov, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, the Nalchik and Novorossiysk stations, and the Aikimbayev center in Almaty. The Irkutsk card notes the October 2026 technician death and the Rospotrebnadzor statement that testing found no work-related organism.
• 18 extra named public BSL-3 campuses: Plum Island, marked closed in September 2025 with work moved to NBAF, Kansas State's Biosecurity Research Institute, CDC Fort Collins, NIH Bethesda, Lovelace Albuquerque, UKHSA Colindale, the Francis Crick Institute, Institut Pasteur in Paris and Dakar, Pasteur Madagascar, RIVM, Sciensano, Fiocruz, the Uganda Virus Research Institute, KEMRI, China CDC Changping, the International Vaccine Institute, and icddr,b in Dhaka.
• 2 planned sites, in a folder that is off by default.

ICONS

Red is civilian BSL-4. Purple is military. Orange is large-animal. Blue is BSL-3. Gray is planned.

FIELD NOTES

This is not every lab in the world. Global Biolabs counted 51 operating BSL-4 labs in 2023. A 2025 paper counted about 110 if cabinets and planned rooms are included, and about 3,500 BSL-3 labs. This file is the named public campuses. Hospital BSL-2 labs are not in it.

Some overseas pins are campus centers and say so on the card. No fence lines, no floor plans, no evacuation radii. Status changes: where a card says built, reported or paused, verify before treating a site as open.

Public campus compilation, October 2026. Data is as published by each source.

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