{"id":141744,"date":"2021-07-27T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=141744&lang=en"},"modified":"2021-07-27T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T08:53:49","slug":"controversy-over-high-risk-infectious-virus-research-facility-in-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/controversy-over-high-risk-infectious-virus-research-facility-in-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Over High-risk Infectious Virus Research Facility In Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"

A BSL4 (biosafety level 4) facility<\/a> for Nagasaki Prefecture will open on Jul. 30. The eleven-year project has aimed to make it one of the leading centers of infectious-disease research in Japan while causing some controversy over safety. The five-story laboratory is equipped with required standards for handling the highest-level contaminants, such as the Ebola virus, Marburg virus, and smallpox virus. Source:<\/b> Nikkei<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A BSL4 (biosafety level 4) facility for Nagasaki Prefecture will open on Jul. 30. The eleven-year project has aimed to make it one of the leading centers of infectious-disease research in Japan while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141744","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nagasaki-city","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/141744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}