A high security biosafety laboratory will very soon rise in Wuhan, Hubei province in China. The said laboratory will then be viable for research against the worse of the most life-threatening pathogens known to man, especially Ebola.
According to reports, the construction of the facility has started July of 2011 and it will be completed before the end of 2014. It has been built under the cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and France-based bio-industry firm Institute Merieux.
China's health officials said that the laboratory's opening by December this year will be a crucial point move for the country's contribution in the fight against the Ebola virus which has taken the lives of so many since months passed.
The biosafety lab, has been reported to have facilities and equipment that allows it to handle class 4 pathogens (P4) which include viruses and bacteria that easily spread through person-to-person transmission like those that cause hemorrhagic fevers where Ebola is one.
A handful of laboratories around the world that are working on the research to combat the spread of the dreaded Ebola (along with the other highly pathogenic germs) whilst finding ways to effectively and efficiently treat its symptoms will soon be joined with this soon to rise biosafety laboratory in China.
In an interview last September 30 in Beijing, Alain Merieux, medicine and public health conglomerate, Institute Merieux's founder and president, said that the opening of the P4-equiped biosafety lab in China is a crucial moment.
He also expressed hopes in finally putting together efficient means to address the health crisis in the affected countries in Africa through the joint French and Chinese medical and health forces through the lab which is soon to rise.
As of October 5, 2014 the total number of confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola in the affected West African countries has been reported to be 8033 while the Ebola death toll is currently at 3879.