Government Lab Vital in Future Pandemics Is Falling Down and at ‘Maximum Risk of Failure’

The UK Government’s only specialist animal lab, which would be crucial to respond to a mass outbreak of an animal disease, is on the edge of literally falling down because of years of disrepair. Defra’s Weybridge site lab contains 98% of the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s high containment laboratories (basically the entire national capacity).[…] Read the rest