A sprawling complex of ultra-high-security labs, the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness sits right at the border between humans and the masses of animal viruses that would love to infect us. The labs have never been busier.
In the first part of an AI-powered investigation, we reveal the death and injury toll of Australia’s medical device industry. Find out how a tiny back pain pump has left a mother paralysed.
The product, heavily marketed on social media, is one of more than 28,000 medical devices the regulator considers so low-risk they barely warrant scrutiny.