WHO Secretary-General Warns of Possible “More Deadly” Pandemic

World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned at the 10-day World Health Assembly (WHA) on the 22nd that a pandemic “more deadly” than the new crown epidemic may be coming, and the world must do well Prepare, “When the next pandemic hits, we must collectively formulate a decisive and fair response,” emphasizing that “it is bound to come.”

comprehensiveReuters、UN NewsAccording to the report, Tan Desai said at the 76th World Health Assembly held in Geneva (Genève, Switzerland) on the 22nd, “The cancellation of the global health emergency is not the end of the threat of COVID-19. The emergence of another mutant strain will trigger New outbreaks and deaths. Other deadlier pathogens may also pose a serious threat.”

The report pointed out that at the World Health Assembly meeting on the 20th, WHO and its partners have officially launched a new infectious disease surveillance platform – the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), which aims to quickly identify various infectious diseases, including the new coronavirus. The potential risks of infectious diseases, and promote the sharing and utilization of infectious disease surveillance data among countries.

WHO believes that although the new crown pandemic has prompted some countries to improve their capabilities in the field of genome sequencing, other countries still lack methods to collect and analyze samples, and global data sharing in the field of public health is still insufficient.

At the same time, WHO member states have also recently decided to draft an epidemic treaty while approving a budget increase. Appreciating this, Tedros also called for the latest negotiations on the International Health Regulations (IHR), which outlines how to prepare and respond to public health crises, “so that the world will never again face The devastation of a pandemic like COVID-19.”

In addition, the WHO has listed the “key infectious diseases” that are currently the most threatening and should be prioritized for research, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) , New Coronary Pneumonia, Zika virus, and WHO’s collective name for diseases caused by undiscovered germs is Disease X (Disease X).

Public health experts agree that the next pandemic is likely to be again a zoonotic disease, a pathogen that originated in animals and then spread to humans. Ebola, AIDS, and COVID-19 all fall into this category.

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