The world’s oldest virus research lab | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2021
- New viruses and diseases, previously found only in tropical climates, are reaching Europe. Researchers in a high-security lab on the Baltic Sea island of Riems are working to put a stop to these dangerous viruses.
The Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the island of Riems can only be reached via a single bridge. The island lies in the Baltic Sea, and its isolated location is vital: Dangerous viruses are stored here, including Ebola, Rabies, Swine Fever, Crimean-Congo Fever and Sars-CoV-2.
The facility is one of only three such laboratories in the world - and the only one in Europe - where dangerous diseases can be researched using live animals such as cattle and pigs under high-security conditions. Researchers are working to understand how new pathogens spread, and to develop vaccines. It's a race against time, as viruses have long since come to have enormous global consequences.
African Swine Fever is on the rise in Eastern Europe. In Germany, wild boars were found dead of ASF for the first time in the fall of 2020. It’s vital to stop the further spread of the disease. So far in Germany, its rampant spread has been limited to wild pigs, but there is a high risk that the virus will begin to affect pig farms.
An outbreak in Germany, the world's third-largest pork producer, would be an economic disaster. Now, a promising potential vaccine is being tested in Riems. It could prove to be a life-saving solution.
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@@carpo719 what
I'm a medical technologist and work in a clinical lab for a local hospital. It bothers me to see some of the scientists touching stuff in the lab with no gloves.
Years ago I worked in one of the CDC "hot labs". The lab assistant I worked with would mouth-pipette solutions containing live viruses. Made me crazy.
I see people wear gloves and touch everything without throwing it away. thus cross contamination.
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Making more bio weapons it needs to stop.
We used to have an island like this in the US... Plum Island. It was closed down after the nearby town of Lyme, CT was overrun with a brand new bacterial infection in humans in 1975 that appeared to have eerily similar symptoms to that of foot and mouth disease in cattle. Foot and Mouth disease of course, being studied at Plum Island. The disease became known as Lyme Disease, named after the town of the first outbreak, and infects nearly 500,000 individuals each year in the US.
In the 50s and 60s Plum Island was studying foot and mouth disease in cattle because of how incredibly vulnerable the stock in the Americas was to the disease. In EU/Asian continent, the cattle there get foot and mouth disease often and normally only results in killing off the symptomatic animal while the rest are able to fight off the spread. However, here in the Americas, our cattle stock is so vulnerable to the disease that once any animal is infected, it normally requires culling the entire herd. During the cold war, this was seen as an incredible vulnerability because if the soviets were able to unknowingly spread foot and mouth throughout various herds in our country, they could effectively destroy our entire cattle stock (and thus much of our food stock).
Riems having even a single bridge to get to the facility sounds incredibly dangerous. It should be entirely cut off and accessible by boat or air as was Plum Island. Even without a bridge however, any flying animal can become infected and fly across the water to land which is what is thought to have happened at Lyme.
It’s still operational
I think you have your illnesses backwards - Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness that affects things like the joints and is often incurable. It cannot be transmitted person to person except through mother to child.
Foot-and-mouth is contagious between people (I've had it) and is known as hoof-and-mouth for livestock.
that's not how infection works
Foot and mouth disease is caused by a virus (apthovirus). Lyme is caused by an intracellular bacterium (Borellia sp.). The math ain't mathing.
Lyme disease was first diagnosed in 1975, but is waaaaay older than that.
must be handled with utmost caution...proceeds to handle sample without gloves
20:22 "This virus is active and highly infectious." *picks up with ungloved hand. ... At least he had his other hand gloved...?
I was thinking about that too
They said it's not dangerous for humans guess that's why 😊
@@sophie7980 until tomorrow
Dumb ppl never touch a hotplate smart ppl touch them when its cold.
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@@phyllispetras3369 Epic.
Thanks to the lab workers for generously filming sequences inside the off-limits, highest-security areas, and to DW for yet another outstanding documentary. As a hearing-impaired viewer, I particularly appreciated the superlatively distinct narration. Thanks also to Drs. Koch, Loeffler, and others who pioneered dangerous and indispensable research -- as well as to the medical heroes who continue to carry on the work today.
2:29 DW: The delivery had to be handled with the utmost caution
Badass scientists: Handle with bare hands without a mask
She CLEARLY said it's no danger for humans...🤔🙄😆
BL4 ! Balloon PP ( protection).
Noticed that too!
@@jeremiahsawyer2123 not yet!
Lol, I've been thinking about the same thing. @13:50 - They've been doing all kinds of hard labor on those animals wearing only barely-protective latex gloves. And look how they take blood samples from those potentially disease-ridden animals, hands covered in blood and whatnot. German people are usually very respective of rules so they must know something we don't.
Highly knowledgeable video, DW is upping the game and that's great
Great work DW, it’s very interesting topic.
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This is something I've only seen in movies. Chilling and extraordinary.
@Weasel Can't Swim he was watching a movie hehehe
Exactly WHY THE LOCATION SHOULD HAVE REMAINED A SECRET!!! 😨😱🙀
Have you seen
'THE PLAGUE DOGS'?
That movie dates back to 1982, and could have more similarity as this place.
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Top marks for informative documentaries that are not ruined by loud and spurious music.
These poor animals. This is absolutely horrible.
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Thank you DW Team for sharing a lot of information about viruses.
Thank you for such indepth view of the subject. Really appreciable, look forward to seeing more from DW Documentary.
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Stuff like this makes me want to find a sterile room and never come out.
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Can't you guys make more videos about this topic?!
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Feeling very grateful for these studies; it is great work however, also feeling extreme sadness for all the animals that are part of these studies and have to be experimented on (and dare i say it, tortured to death). No matter how “humanly” they are treated, my heart still aches… Being a huge animal lover, I watched this mini docu with tears in my eyes the entire time…
Me too 🥺 it’s so sad but we need these people. ❤️
Same. :( I'm a research scientist, but really don't think live animal research is great most of the time. I'm lucky to be in a field where studying human cells is way better for the research I'm doing anyways and no animals need to be harmed.
RIP to all the animals who gave their live for the greater good.
I just ate a steak, but didn't like it, so i threw it out. Lolz
@@PaintballVideosNet would that have carried the virus to a dog/cat/bird/human i wonder
amen may all those animals rest in peace. They are also God's creation as are we.
now you are saying in general that the inside genealogy of an animal is the same genealogy inside of a human are exactly 💯 the same ? What you can give an animal you can give a human ? where are humans quarters located for testing. or you just kill animals purposely for the testing. Why not use criminals on death row ? oh yeah that would be inhumane but not for the animals. My thought to that matter is SAVE THE ANIMAL, KILL THE ... YOU KNOW THE ENDING !
“Samples contain one of deadliest diseases known to man”…hands off to each other with no gloves, mask, PPE…
She said it wasn't a threat to humans..Lol. If u mean the virus from the Wild Pigs/wart hogs
Humans are part of the animal kingdom...a weak part!
Airlines and ships 🚢spread these deadly diseases.
thats cause they already have it already
@kelvin britz Chinese didnt say that, Trump did!
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DW you must be the only one who still believes sars cov2 jumped the species barrier without any other intervention
Come on! Let’s get serious!
"jumped the species barrier without any other intervention"
there's literally dozens of virus that we contracted from animals.
Swine Flu? Mad Cow? Bird flu? are you dense as an hobby?
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I don't know how many times the woman's voice said "at the highest bio-security level" as they showed technicians touching everything with their bare hands, not wearing face masks, and not wearing safety goggles, but the cognitive dissonance was painful even after just one time.
A lot of times you don't need PPE it depends on what you're doing. At times they're wearing hazmat suits -high level PPE- so they obviously know when they do and don't need to wear it. I've not seen a time in the documentary where they should wear gloves and weren't.
It's also well documented that people who wear gloves just carry more dirt on the gloves.
Also, they might be doing reenactments that wouldn't require any PPE.
@@kellybliss6163 you mean documentaries on youtube arent made with real life footage?!? we've been lied too
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As a multi discipline medical professional, I saw no inappropriate or dangerous handling of samples or test biologicals samples in this video. If one doesn't understand the context of the samples or dangers they may present, it can be easy to make an incorrect assumption. I assure you, there was no safety protocols broken here.
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Another informative and timely topic.
Thank you DW.
shouldn't they be fully covered with PPE in the beginning when the researcher is opening the bottle?
No. May not be an airborne illness.
Thank you for this video. I am also so ,so thankful for all the scientists that do this important work.
Great Documentary.
Thank you DW
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Very informative work if only more documentary were this detailed.
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In today’s climate....this is a real concern ....research is essential...it must be done
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DW: Hey! Here's the worlds oldest virus research lab!
100 people: Well that sucks ...
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Clearly Customs clearances have to be revised to protect against biosecurity concerns. At airports one cannot transport fruits, meats etc
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I can only imagine the horrors happening with those experiments. We all see the movies and how that all plays out!
Movies & television, often over-dramatise their "viral" films, to get bums on seats, to pay the cast & crew.
@@davidarundel6187 I was talking about those movies that are declassified. The videos that show what kind of stuff happens to the animals in which are experimented on. There's a lot that's happened which has been documented that is scary to most people, including me. Such as the sleep experiments, or the drug experiments, the animal testing experiments for consumer products, the lab experiments conducted by government scientists on humans, the PETA films show some horrible stuff as well. Actually the Hollywood films aren't as bad as reality when you consider everything. Censorship happens in Hollywood while declassified and uncensored documents and films don't censor what occurred.
@@elizabethbuttler6514 you should have made that clear in your post
@@elizabethbuttler6514 PETA are trash and fake stuff and lie all the time, proven.
We have a level-4 Bio-Lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They look into mainly Ebola, Marburg and Lassa Fever though I think they were pretty involved with safety restrictions and developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
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This could very well be the prequel of 28 Days Later..... great documentary, very disturbing subject, but also very interesting.
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Honestly this is frickin terrifying. Informative and necessary but terrifying
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Your documentaries are the most interesting and well done!! This particular one reminds me so much of the film 'The Plague Dogs.' It's a very sad but necessary research.
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Ceases not seizes
Those wrist level gloves don't appear to good enough for all that dissection going on. 😦🧤
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Oh, I thought this was going to be about Plum Island. I have Lyme, so I was curious.
Yup, I was also waiting for Plum Island. Connecticut here
I thought about Jekyll island
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2:37 Not wearing proper biosafety PPE to investigate mysterious ‘pig plague’ tissues from open containers isn’t very reassuring. I hope she was just snipping up leftover lunch to demo for the cameras. Great doc though, as always! Thank you DW
Thank u for pointing out...thats what i observed too
It does not affect humans.
Supposedly they don’t know that. Any untested samples coming in should warrant a labcoat, mask and gloves, especially in a lab that works with dangerous specimens. Cafeteria workers wear better equipment than this.
Theres a saying stupid ppl will touch a hot stovetop just once and never again smart ppl just when it is off.
@@midei so they say. Covid was supposed to only infect animals also but here we are somehow
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Speaking as a Pharma student, the laboratory worker that opened the HIGHLY dangerous package didn’t wear gloves, and the worker that examined the contents of the package should have sprayed it with ethanol before putting it into the biosafety cabinet (BSC) hood.
After watching it further, the lab analyst did not even put on safety goggles while centrifuging the samples. Is this really a BSL-4 lab?
Great documentary ! However very scary and makes me think of the Covid situation we are going through !
COVID is manmade
Please make a documentary on Plum Island - New York.
Another video that can learn more about virus 🦠 thank you DW 👍
Bravo! I am much smarter now than I was before. Thanks DW.
Much smarter?Yep three more documentaries and you can work in the field of virology,five more and cancer will be just a bad memory,seven more and fusion is not out of the reach of Kyle Ruggles or by that time Nobel Laureate Kyle Ruggles.
p.s. Please don't take this to seriously,I don't know first thing about you so I don't know how smart are you but I just had a good laugh at your comment not because of you because like I said I don't know first thing about you but because it would be nice if it was like that I would be one of the smartest persons alive,I love documentaries.I probably watched everything there is on RUclips about space and many other topics.
Absolutely superb documentary on applied research in virology.
It was actually. I especially liked the part about how pathogens "hide" from the immune system. This is what people don't understand about this field. That pathogens are extremely capable, much more so than people think.
Surely if sea levels had risen much this place would be under water by now……
Thank you!!!!!
You don't need to be a genius to figure out whats going to happen here some day.
I know what you mean!!
The alternative to this is not having anything at all. Imagine if we were caught off guard from a lethal pathogen, it would be catastrophic. Take a look at Covid and how much it has affected our life. By the way, the reason why we were able to develop a vaccine for this pathogen is because a group of scientists devoted 40+ years of research to the mRNA technology. We need more research, of course with the right precautions.