Add-on: for natural epidemics, there are a number of “event-based surveillance systems” that monitor news, social media, and other sources for weak signals of potential emergencies. WHO, PAHO, and many national governments run such systems, and there are a few private ones (one of which I run).
One could set up such a system focussing exclusively on the regions immediately surrounding high containment labs.
There are only ~60 BSL-4 labs, so you could conceivably monitor each of these regions quite closely without an impossibly large team.
Direct monitoring would be much better, but this might be a useful adjunct.
Add-on: for natural epidemics, there are a number of “event-based surveillance systems” that monitor news, social media, and other sources for weak signals of potential emergencies. WHO, PAHO, and many national governments run such systems, and there are a few private ones (one of which I run).
One could set up such a system focussing exclusively on the regions immediately surrounding high containment labs.
There are only ~60 BSL-4 labs, so you could conceivably monitor each of these regions quite closely without an impossibly large team.
Direct monitoring would be much better, but this might be a useful adjunct.