Monitoring Desk
ANKARA: Japan is
developing medical kits to counter outbreak of any fatal diseases, ahead of the
2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled in Tokyo, Japan Times reported,
quoting health ministry officials. According to plan, Tokyo will import strains
of Ebola and four other deadly rare and fatal viruses that cause hemorrhagic
fever from foreign laboratories in a month or two, to develop antidotes, at the
National Institute of Infectious Diseases in a Tokyo suburb.
Thousands of sports
persons and large number of their fans, will travel to Tokyo next year to watch
Olympic and Paralympic games. The government plans to obtain Ebola, Lassa,
South American, Crimean-Congo and Marburg viruses, …read more
Source: The Frontier Post
