Japan will import strains of Ebola and four other deadly viruses for the first time for the development of diagnostic kits ahead of the next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, the health ministry said Monday.The government will obtain the rare but often fatal viruses, which cause hemorrhagic fever, from foreign laboratories possibly in a month or two for research at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in a Tokyo suburb, the only facility in the country equipped to handle such deadly viruses, the ministry officials said.The government plans to obtain Ebola, Lassa, South …READ FULL ARTICLE
