The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) is Germany’s largest institution for research, services and training in the field of tropical diseases and emerging infections. The current scientific focus is on malaria, hemorrhagic fever viruses, tissue nematodes and diagnostics development. To study highly pathogenic viruses and infected insects, the institute has laboratories with the highest level of biosafety (BSL 4) and a BSL3 insectary. The BNITM comprises the National Reference Center for Tropical Pathogens and the WHO-Collaborating Center for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever.