Are you in any danger of catching diseases in your lab?

Question: Are you in any danger of catching diseases in your lab?
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Asked by ScienceGuy to Alex on 13 Nov 2014.
- Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  No I’m quite safe, you can’t catch cancer so whilst I work with cancer cells all the time I can’t get cancer from them.
  
  If we ever work with anything that can harm us then we have a lot of protective equipment that we have to wear.

Question: Are you in any danger of catching diseases in your lab?