UN officials call for worldwide alert system as 'spiraling' threat becomes more extreme: 'Early warning means early action'

"Early warning means early action," said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo in a speech at the UN's annual conference in ...
News Medical

Wastewater surveillance for detecting COVID-19 offers early warning and cost savings

Wastewater surveillance at treatment plants offers a low-cost, early warning method for detecting COVID-19. Researchers in Japan conducted an economic evaluation of a system for long-term care ...
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Tanzania Launches Pandemic Fund Project to Strengthen Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

This landmark initiative, supported by catalytic funding from the Pandemic Fund, aims to strengthen Tanzania’s capacity to ...
The Pantagraph

Ronn Pineo: More pandemics are coming; will we heed the warning signs?

We should have seen it coming. There had been too many near misses for devastating human pandemics: the Ebola virus, beginning in 1976; the “bird” flu H5N1, first appearing in 1997; SARS in 2003; Zika ...