Katherine nixey writes about britain for the but. Briton contains some of the world's most important collections of bacteria, viruss, fungi and cell lines. These collections are absolutely essential for modern scientific research. A sample of human corona virus will set you back 282 pounds - that's about 300 forty seven dollars. To order them, you have to go through several layers of security, and quite a lot more security for the nastier ones. They wouldn't even let me see the small pox.