Opening This Spring in Kansas: A High-Tech Lab Researching Livestock Diseases

Image caption: The front view of the completed NBAF in Manhattan, Kansas. Image courtesy of USDA. Article by Madison McVan. Flatland KC – April 7th, 2022. This article was first published on Investigate Midwest. 

Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious diseases that affect livestock and humans.

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, will be the first biosafety level 4 lab — the highest biosafety level — in the United States capable of housing large livestock. […]

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