Inside the super-secure Swiss lab trying to stop the next pandemic
WHO?
[Jpost] Spiez Laboratory, known for its detective work on chemical, biological and nuclear threats since World War Two, was tasked last year by the World Health Organization to be the first in a global network of high-security laboratories that will grow, store and share newly discovered microbes that could unleash the next pandemic.
Goody. They’ll no doubt have better security and work practices than that thing in Wuhan, so there’s that. | The WHO's BioHub program was, in part, born of frustration over the hurdles researchers faced in getting samples of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first detected in China, to understand its dangers and develop tools to fight it.
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-07-31 |