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.