Metagenomics would solve these issues. Of course we have these problems when a new disease comes along if we have to invent new diagnostics for it. Metagenomics

Metagenomics would solve these issues. Of course we have these problems when a new disease comes along if we have to invent new diagnostics for it. Metagenomics isn’t new, you just sequence the everything and look to see what DNA/RNA is in the environment. That’s orders of magnitude more data because it doesn’t require labels, you don’t need to know in advance what you’re looking for... The devices to do this are getting cheaper faster than Moore’s law. Just takes the will to set up the programs