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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Antony Thrower

Inside the super-secure laboratory trying to stop the world's next pandemic

Hidden high in the Swiss Alps sits a super secure facility, with the workers inside responsible for researching deadly pathogens to stop the next pandemic breaking out.

Spiez Laboratory was tasked last year by the World Health Organisation to be the first to grow and store potentially deadly viruses to find out how to stop outbreaks.

Known as the BioHub program, it was created as a result of hurdles researchers faced when Covid broke out as they waited for samples of the virus to arrive from China.

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