FR used to have a group pinglist for emerging bio-threats. I think it was Mother Abigail who was very knowledgeable on this kind of stuff. Many haven’t heard from her in quite a while and she is deeply missed.
Those in the old ping list would just quietly watch various events happening globally, usually posting in the smokey backroom. The list seemed to fall apart before Covid emerged? We’d get concerned about Ebola or Marburg, but there are bio’s far less dramatic but more sneaky deadly.
Select Committee Unveils Report on Illegal PRC-Tied Biolab in Reedley, CA with McCarthy & Costa
https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/select-committee-unveils-report-illegal-prc-tied-biolab-reedley-ca-mccarthy
Tilted Irish Kilt manages the Infectious Disease ping list.
And ransomnote pings out a lot of thread which deal with bio warfare and attacks. Not as such but as threads on the latest *pandemic*.