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Lab in a Bag: How we took diagnostics to the other side of the world during the hantavirus outbreak

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UKHSA microbiologists Clara Milroy and Kimberley Steeds, along with infection prevention and control expert Anthony Twyman, arrive in Saint Helena with the mobile laboratory

Last week, 3 of our colleagues packed a fully functioning laboratory into a set of flight cases and boarded a plane to one of the most remote islands on Earth. Saint Helena, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic …