Talkmore Maruta stood on a stage in Lusaka last week and told an audience that he hoped he wouldn’t scare them with what he was about to say next.
Maruta, the acting director of programs for the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, gave a talk on preparedness levels for biosafety and biosecurity across the continent during the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention flagship conference last week in Zambia.
"Let me warn you that it has been scaring us, and many other people that are working in this field,” he told the audience.
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Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
