Bio-lab prepares to take on Ebola
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CHINA’S first high-security biosafety laboratory will be ready for use by December, a move hailed as “crucial” in the fight against pathogens such as the Ebola virus, officials said yesterday.
The facility, which has been under construction since July 2011, is billed as the first in China equipped to handle Class 4 pathogens (P4) — dangerous viruses that pose a high risk of person-to-person transmission, such as those, like Ebola, that cause haemorrhagic fevers.
The laboratory in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei Province, was built in cooperation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will join just a handful of labs around the world cleared to handle the most highly pathogenic germs.
The Wuhan P4 laboratory comes “at a crucial moment,” said Institut Merieux president Alain Merieux in Beijing.
“Now we are all working side by side on Ebola,” he added, referring to French and Chinese efforts to address the crisis currently affecting African countries.
The world’s worst Ebola epidemic has killed more than half the 6,500 people it has infected, according to the World Health Organization.
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