South Africa would be left to fend for itself in the event of a pandemic viral outbreak, said UCT's Professor Ed Rybicki to an audience of academics, government officials and the general public.
Speaking at UCT's first Café Scientifique in July, the molecular biologist led discussions about the state of medical virology in South Africa and worldwide, focusing particularly on vaccine-production. Rybicki's talk, titled Vaccine Rapid Response: Is South Africa Ready?, left guests in no doubt that the country was ill-equipped to protect its citizens from any such outbreak in the near future.
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