Nations urged to focus Health’ to prevent the next pandemic

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The report, “Putting Pandemics necessary changes. The report gives Behind Us: Investing in One Health alternative approaches that address to Reduce Risks of Emerging Infectious pandemic risk at its source and is Diseases, says that to effectively grounded in One Health strategies, address the challenges posed whole-of-society planning, and by pandemics, countries need to collaboration across disciplines at depart from the old cycle of panic the human-animal-ecosystem interfaces and neglect. “The business-as-usual as a central path to global approach to pandemics has been health security. On how to transition based on containment and control to more effective approaches, after a disease has emerged. It relies the report advises countries to have primarily on reductionist approaches high-level discussions on designing to the vaccine and therapeutic development an international accord on pandemics rather than on reducing the and a new financing mechanism drivers of pandemic risk to prevent for pandemic prevention, preparedness them before they emerge,” the report and response, and the benefits says. The World Bank says strategies of investing in prevention and One used by countries to fight pandemics Health for sustainable and human are enormously expensive and development insufficient to protect people from It also highlights the relatively ohfrpargemve,ntthioenmcoumscplaerebdetw

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