{"id":1970,"date":"2018-08-02T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2019-04-02T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:45:33","slug":"neidl-receives-first-bsl-4-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2018\/08\/02\/neidl-receives-first-bsl-4-pathogens\/","title":{"rendered":"NEIDL Receives First BSL-4 Pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2018\/ebola-research-begins-at-neidl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL)<\/a><\/span> has begun work with its first Level-4 pathogens, the Ebola and Marburg viruses. Ebola has become a global public health threat, infecting and killing thousands during the 2014 outbreak. There is no available FDA-approved vaccine or therapy for Ebola, or the related Marburg virus. NEIDL researchers are excited to begin work with these pathogens, which could speed the development of remedies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University\u2019s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) has begun work with its first Level-4 pathogens, the Ebola and Marburg viruses. Ebola has become a global public health threat, infecting and killing thousands during the 2014 outbreak. There is no available FDA-approved vaccine or therapy for Ebola, or the related Marburg virus. NEIDL researchers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}