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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scaling Laboratory Operations in Developing Countries

Posted: 08 Jul 2022 07:42 AM PDT

In 1976, a Belgian Catholic mission and hospital in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was stricken with a mysterious illness that caused fever-like symptoms. Most of the patients who contracted the illness died. A young microbiologist named Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum was called to the mission, where he extracted blood samples […] Related posts: Preventing the Next Pandemic is Vastly Cheaper Than Reacting to It: Study Avoiding the Next Pandemic: A NOW Interview with...

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