Ginkgo Biosecurity的动态

California's State of Emergency proclamation is an important recognition of the need to respond definitively to the growing threat posed by H5N1. Proactive testing and sequencing just makes sense – heartland security is an issue that has consequences for all of us, and everyone should support proactive measures against threats like this. All of us across America depend on our farmers and food infrastructure every day, and they should be able to depend on us. State and national governments can provide critical support, empowering America's biosecurity industrial base to snap in safeguards that keep us all informed. Our response needs to get smarter: testing alone will mean we are catching up to the spread of the disease. Deploying genomic surveillance, the sequencing of milk samples (especially those that test positive) will allow us to detect emerging variants, develop comprehensive testing panels, and keep on pace with the biology at play here. Thankfully, the same infrastructure we built to support our COVID response can be deployed against bird flu. We stand ready, alongside our partners, including labs that test roughly half of the US milk supply, to support these biosecurity efforts.