Does Ebola Belong In The South End? Inside The BU Biolab (Audio)
Original article from: WGBH News posted on October 9, 2014. By Anne Mostue
The current Ebola outbreak has added urgency to research into the deadly disease — and it’s put a spotlight on Boston University’s controversial biolab in the South End. Activists have called the lab a danger to the neighborhood — but after years of delays, researchers there could soon be taking critical steps toward advancing our understanding of Ebola.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory has been 11 years in the making. Constructed by BU in 2008, the gleaming building still sits largely empty on a corner of the school’s South End medical campus. Inside, Director Ron Corley shows me where he’s hoping researchers can study Ebola and viruses like it.