National Institute of Infectious Diseases will install Japan’s first BSL4 facility in Musashimurayama city

As agreed by Minister SHIOZAKI of MHLW and the Musashimurayama city government, the first BSL4 facility of Japan will be built there under severy restrictions. BSL4 is a classification by the World Health Organization (WHO) for risk group 4 orgnisms which are lethal pathogens such as Ebola virus, Marburg virus or Lassa virus.

MHLW news release, August 2015

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