Inside The Ultra Secure Swiss Laboratory He Tries To Stop The Next Pandemic
The Spiez lab, known for its detective work on chemical, biological and nuclear threats since the Second World War, was commissioned last year by the World Health Organization to be the first in a global network of high-security laboratories to develop, store and share news discovered germs that could unleash the next pandemic. WHO’s BioHub program was born, in part, out of frustration with the obstacles researchers faced in obtaining samples of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, first identified in China, to understand its risks and develop tools to his fight....