The world’s oldest virus research lab | DW Documentary

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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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.

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Making more bio weapons it needs to stop.

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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.

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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.

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Also, they might be doing reenactments that wouldn't require any PPE.

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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.

[@Ddub1083]

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.

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It’s still operational

[@Erin-rg3dw]

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.

[@poli6ady]

that's not how infection works

[@thisgirlisreeltreble]

Foot and mouth disease is caused by a virus (apthovirus). Lyme is caused by an intracellular bacterium (Borellia sp.). The math ain't mathing.

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Lyme disease was first diagnosed in 1975, but is waaaaay older than that.

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I too do this!

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2:29 DW: The delivery had to be handled with the utmost caution Badass scientists: Handle with bare hands without a mask

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She CLEARLY said it's no danger for humans...🤔🙄😆

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Noticed that too!

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@@jeremiahsawyer2123 not yet!

[@insolito83]

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.

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This is something I've only seen in movies. Chilling and extraordinary.

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@Weasel Can't Swim he was watching a movie hehehe

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Exactly WHY THE LOCATION SHOULD HAVE REMAINED A SECRET!!! 😨😱🙀

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Have you seen 'THE PLAGUE DOGS'? That movie dates back to 1982, and could have more similarity as this place.

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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!

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"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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Stuff like this makes me want to find a sterile room and never come out.

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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.

[@StopWhining491]

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.

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I see people wear gloves and touch everything without throwing it away. thus cross contamination.

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20:22 "This virus is active and highly infectious." *picks up with ungloved hand. ... At least he had his other hand gloved...?

[@gaylecoleman8567]

I was thinking about that too

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They said it's not dangerous for humans guess that's why 😊

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@@sophie7980 until tomorrow

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Dumb ppl never touch a hotplate smart ppl touch them when its cold.

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[@tashtash555]

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…

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Me too 🥺 it’s so sad but we need these people. ❤️

[@OGAngie]

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.

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Wow! It's very informative and chilling. Thank you!

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[@LexieKnits93]

Honestly this is frickin terrifying. Informative and necessary but terrifying

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“Samples contain one of deadliest diseases known to man”…hands off to each other with no gloves, mask, PPE…

[@jeremiahsawyer2123]

She said it wasn't a threat to humans..Lol. If u mean the virus from the Wild Pigs/wart hogs

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Humans are part of the animal kingdom...a weak part!

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Airlines and ships 🚢spread these deadly diseases.

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thats cause they already have it already

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@kelvin britz Chinese didnt say that, Trump did!

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In today’s climate....this is a real concern ....research is essential...it must be done

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Thank you for posting

[@eduguidea]

Wait, are you serious? Executing pigs through the trap and spreading blood and internal organs to the soil, then other insects and wild pigs will get caught again. Shouldn't this process be operated in a high-security lab or anywhere else rather than in open area forests? It is just a questionable investigation for me. If you can diagnosis from a blood sample then there is a high chance other animals to get through their leftovers on the soil. Am I wrong or missing something here?

[@raypitts4880]

you got it thats what i thought later on it said cooked meat can carry it ho hum

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swine virus, understood? @@raypitts4880

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Another informative and timely topic. Thank you DW.

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[@jimmyryan5880]

They keep saying this is for the good of the animals. This is really to protect the meat industry. If the animals were given more space a lot of these problems would go away.

[@raypitts4880]

@P Pierre kill humans to make space for other species. ho ho

[@sofiabrown7629]

Exactly!

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Do real factual research…. We have plenty of land available on Earth. Look up the REAL statistics and stop listening to the MSM propaganda.

[@Heather-4444]

Yes and no. That would be the right answer if this were in the US and not Germany. Germanys agriculture is very different, especially in more rural regions. The animals there have space, and a lot of meat is wild game. These diseases develop without our intervention, but are exacerbated by our trade process.

[@gayeinggs5179]

What birds. You let in disease ridden . Refugees and are killing your people ! Aids and other horrible infections

[@jerrychen6610]

must be handled with utmost caution...proceeds to handle sample without gloves

[@JonathanXLindqviust]

I entirely condone animal-testing, but can't they at least give some fucking bearable lifestyle for the pigs? They're as intelligent as a 3-4 yearold, they're more intelligent than dogs and cats, so why leave them in a cold metallic lab? I mean I get containment, but at least have some disposable matrasses or whatever. They're suffering to alleviate ours, least we can do is give them a fair life.

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Always precisely on point with great content.

[@UATU.]

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

[@tagaislaako5146]

Thank u for pointing out...thats what i observed too

[@midei]

It does not affect humans.

[@UATU.]

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.

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Theres a saying stupid ppl will touch a hot stovetop just once and never again smart ppl just when it is off.

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@@midei so they say. Covid was supposed to only infect animals also but here we are somehow

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[@stevengill1736]

"the package had to be received with the utmost caution...". (video of woman in regular clothes, no gloves or other PPE breaking open a package). ???

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There are people that still believe viruses cannot be altered. Hmmmm. I genuinely appreciate this . I hope I there will be more revelations.

[@gaylecoleman8567]

Like modified mosquitoes

[@Uap-i3o]

Very informative work if only more documentary were this detailed.

[@brendatenorio5721]

Clearly Customs clearances have to be revised to protect against biosecurity concerns. At airports one cannot transport fruits, meats etc

[@marsenarichmond2208]

Interesting that this lab in Germany is the oldest in the world and Interesting that many many German doctors and scientists were given new lives in the USA instead of a death sentence.

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No news channels covers documents like dw.......

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Very interesting documentary!Huge like to DW

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Another extraordinary documentary by DW. It has helped me understand the complexity of scientific work. Thank you!

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Great documentary! 👏

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[@elizabethbuttler6514]

I can only imagine the horrors happening with those experiments. We all see the movies and how that all plays out!

[@davidarundel6187]

Movies & television, often over-dramatise their "viral" films, to get bums on seats, to pay the cast & crew.

[@elizabethbuttler6514]

@@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.

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@@elizabethbuttler6514 you should have made that clear in your post

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@@elizabethbuttler6514 PETA are trash and fake stuff and lie all the time, proven.

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Very informative. Awesome!

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describe one word that rounds up this Documentary ............ disturbing!

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Simply great & educative.

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Thanks DW !!!!

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Interesting documentary 👍

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Considering this is likely how COVID came about, I don't support most of this research. Particularly gain-of-function studies. Serial passage of viruses and other pathogens helps them jump species quicker & adapt to humans and that's exactly what they tinker around with in some of these BSL-4 labs. It's not a matter of IF a mistake happens & a spillover happens but WHEN.

[@thebirdlady4304]

Covid 19 was lab made

[@kiehlie]

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.

[@traciecombs7030]

These poor animals. This is absolutely horrible.

[@islandgirl75]

While I don't condone animal testing in cruel conditions, many of the reasons we're all alive is because we can test on them. Some of the time, they also help the health of other animals. Are you vegan?

[@traciecombs7030]

@islandgirl75 I am vegetarian since I will purchase eggs from chickens that are raised locally.

[@jtaforJesus]

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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Thank you DW for a good journalism 🙏

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Another video that can learn more about virus 🦠 thank you DW 👍

[@zairahshahid6071]

shouldn't they be fully covered with PPE in the beginning when the researcher is opening the bottle?

[@melr1598]

No. May not be an airborne illness.

[@doloresikbaker2371]

Thank you for this video. I am also so ,so thankful for all the scientists that do this important work.

[@MISS7AIRBI]

I really learned a lot thanks

[@marx4325]

People in labs with no masks, same gloves used, equipment continuously touched with the same gloves on. People working in the field with no masks, no PPE, dead animals transported with no safeguards.

[@Favorite-catNip]

Yup. I see.

[@midei]

It does not affect humans.

[@NicoleM2108]

Different security/biohazard levels. The tissue samples did not contain airborne pathogens, for example.

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Very good job DW.🌹

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Very informative.. Thanks 🙏💓

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You guys are amaze me❤️❤️

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Thanks a lot DW for these brilliant documentaries! 🙏 You never fail to amaze us!! 💙

[@tsteve9264]

Informative, but DW really should start putting disclaimers for animal abuse when needed.

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Nice documentaries. Really enjoying and learning from this channel

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[@cathfidelis]

This is impressive

[@ohecinue]

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.

[@ohecinue]

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?

[@saifurrahman2188]

DW is the best reliable source of information

[@SerchhipChelsea]

RIP to all the animals who gave their live for the greater good.

[@PaintballVideosNet]

I just ate a steak, but didn't like it, so i threw it out. Lolz

[@raypitts4880]

@@PaintballVideosNet would that have carried the virus to a dog/cat/bird/human i wonder

[@paulanneeast6717]

amen may all those animals rest in peace. They are also God's creation as are we.

[@paulanneeast6717]

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 !

[@zzulm]

Good info, thank you.

[@KyleRuggles]

Bravo! I am much smarter now than I was before. Thanks DW.

[@robydee920]

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 KZbin about space and many other topics.

[@KofiCatlovesU]

Interesting. Thank you

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DW never seizes to amaze me!!!🤘🏾🤙🏾Keep em coming!!!🏆

[@thebirdlady4304]

Ceases not seizes

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Another great documentary from DW, thanks so much.

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[@patriciadileonardo4620]

Please make a documentary on Plum Island - New York.

[@ksteak27]

Just got home from my 2-week, no-refund, AirBnB vacation to Plague Island. ZERO STARS. Would not recommend.

[@andygray4418]

DW, is the narrator the same woman who used to cover the PADI course materials in the mid 2000s? Sounds very familiar.