Across Texas major cities are responding with their own Ebola plans. At UTMB, a statewide referral center, Dr. David Callender, said in a statement that UTMB does not anticipate receiving any Ebola patients but nonetheless has a contingency plan. UTMB houses one of the two National Biocontainment Laboratories in the nation charged with conducting high-level studies of infectious organisms and diseases. Work at the two national centers is supplemented and complemented by a dozen regional biocontainment laboratories, all under the auspices of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.