• 19
  Nov
  2011

• WHO Warning: New Pandemic Info Campaign

  
  Filed Under: Blogging
  Author: YourGuy

Our active World Health Organization (WHO) has released a warning that unless the global efforts to prevent viruses from circulating, a new pandemic will happen. In fact, with the rapid increase in travel, they feel that an outbreak is imminent. It’s for this reason that international travel health insurance is being promoted as an essential travel tool and not a luxury. At least with overseas health insurance, a traveler can get the immunization shots he needs and should he get infected with a virus while overseas, be attended so the virus won’t spread.

WHO is worried also of another animal to human crisis like the bird flu, swine flu or mad cow disease. They held a conference in Mexico City and invited more than 30 major countries to participate. The conference, “Health Risks in Human-Animal Ecosystems” which was just concluded aims to develop a global response system, similar to a more effective international alarm to prevent the spread of human infections from animals.

For Keiji Fukuda who is the WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, it’s not about “if” it will happen but “when” it will happen. He says, “We do face the risk of another pandemic in the future. We know that the viruses which can cause influenza pandemic circulate in animals and then we don’t know when one of those viruses then becomes highly infectious for people and then spreads around the world. We also don’t know when something like that happens, which we do expect in the future someday, when something like that happens we don’t know how severe the effect will be.”

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