What is Pandemic Preparedness and Why is it Important? pandemic virus disease epidemic
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National governments sit at the forefront of defense regarding mounting a response to a disease outbreak. Aside from these, the WHO Health Emergencies Programme is working to foster preparedness for large-scale outbreaks and pandemics. Frameworks for measuring preparedness are the WHO International Health Regulations Core Capacity Monitoring Framework and the Joint External Evaluation .
Improved surveillance For one thing, systems of surveillance could be much sharper. The Ebola epidemics were around for about a month before the disease was detected, and a similar story abounds for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Once an outbreak moves beyond a contained area, it becomes exponentially harder to control.
Several influential scientists are now calling for surveillance of this sort to be expanded across the globe and particularly in places where people find themselves in proximity to pathogens ––forests, agricultural premises, and, of course, virology laboratories. Genomic technologies could also be utilized to detect airborne and water-borne pathogens. The technology is useful beyond the initial point of the outbreak and can be used to detect how far a pathogen has spread.
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