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The research infrastructure that was built up to tackle two other diseases, hiv and tuberculosis. so take me through the omicron discovery. how did it come about? >> so we set up a network of genomic surveillance in south africa. and this came off the knowledge and expertise from hiv and tb. and this is surveillance network is throughout the country. and this surveillance network does routine genome analysis. and in johannesburg, they started to notice what we call s-gene knockouts and alerted this network to it. and they saw this target failure, which is a sign that something was different. a...
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