Kazakhstan joins global combat against infectious deseases

Kazakhstan is putting an effort into global combat against infectious diseases and viruses. Amid the recent Ebola outbreak, scientists from Kazakhstan are willing to join the global search for a vaccine against the deadly virus, Tengrinews reports.

According to Abylai Sansyzbai, general director of the state enterprise Research and Development Institute for Biological Safety Problems, scientific potential of Kazakhstan scientists is sufficient for them to work on development of a vaccine against Ebola.

He reminded that virologists from Kazakhstan had the necessary knowledge and experience in development of vaccines against various types of fever, including hemorrhagic. Kazakhstan has hosted labs studying deadly viruses since the Soviet era.

For example, the Institute is now working on the creation of cure for avian and swine influenza. The establishment received strains of these viruses from the World Health Organization (WHO) after a teleconference held in May 2014.

However, the domestic scientists have no necessary conditions to start working on a vaccine against Ebola. "This requires a laboratory biosafety level 4 (BSL-4). Kazakhstan still doesn’t have one, we are now only completing the construction of a laboratory with biosafety level 3," Sansyzbai said.

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