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A pacy, real-life page-turner by Reuters journalist on the global 100-days mission to identify and catch the next virus outbreak, codenamed DISEASE X, before it spreads worldwide.
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A pacy, real-life page-turner by Reuters journalist on the global 100-days mission to identify and catch the next virus outbreak, codenamed DISEASE X, before it spreads worldwide.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Canbury Press Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 204
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 295g
- ISBN-13: 9781912454976
- ISBN-10: 1912454971
- Artikelnr.: 69825190
- Verlag: Canbury Press Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 204
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 295g
- ISBN-13: 9781912454976
- ISBN-10: 1912454971
- Artikelnr.: 69825190
Kate Kelland is an award-winning global health correspondent formerly at Reuters. She is now chief scientific writer at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in London. During 30 years in journalism, she set the agenda in global health and science coverage. In 2017, she won the London Foreign Press Association Science Story of the Year award for her investigative reporting on the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In 2016, she won the Medical Journalists Association's Feature of the Year award for a piece on the critical challenge facing the WHO - to heal itself. She was UK winner of the European Health Prize for Journalists in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Foreword by Sir Tony Blair. The former British Prime Minister warns that
nations should not forget the risk of pandemics following the recovery from
Covid-19
Introduction: Meet Disease X. Disease X is the World Health Organization's
term for the next potential big pandemic. Previous examples include Ebola,
Zika and SARS. The world has a '100 Days Mission' to combat the next
Disease X
1. Prepare to be Scared. Pandemics are increasing in frequency and
seriousness. Novel viruses can spread in unusual ways and their growth can
be exponential.
2. Prepare to Move Fast. The increasing arrival of new communicable
diseases such as SARS, MERS and Zika (not to mention Covid-19) means that
the world's countries must be ready to act quickly: 'Making quick, decisive
moves in the early stage of a rapidly spreading disease outbreak is a
prerequisite for getting ahead of a potential pandemic.
3. Prepare to Take Risks. The necessity of pump priming the development of
vaccines by pharmaceutical companies to maximise the chances of effective
preventative medicine. Sometimes this money will be wasted; often it will
halt the exponential spread of a virus that could wreak devastation on
human populations.
4. Prepare to Share. Covid-19 showed that international cooperation is
essential to thwart the growth of diseases. Public health leaders such as
CEPI's Richard Hatchett devised an internationally fair system for sharing
vaccines, COVAX.
5. Prepare to Listen. Governments should listen to health experts who are
familiar with the spread of infectious diseases. Unfortunately, Britain's
Prime Minister during Covid-19, Boris Johnson, did not listen - or, at
least, did not act quickly enough.
6. Prepare to Fail. Many vaccine trials will fail. The search for a vaccine
for HIV has, for instance, repeatedly failed. However, the attempts to
develop a vaccine for HIV have led to breakthroughs in the development of
vaccines for other diseases. Scientific advancement is not linear and
requires patience.
7. Prepare to Spend Money. Pandemics cost trillions of dollars. Preventing
them through the timely development of vaccines and other preventative
measures costs much less. If the world spent a fraction of the money it
spends on the military annually (almost $2 trillion in 2020) on public
health instead, the world's population would benefit tangibly and
manifestly.
8. Prepare for the Next One... Because it's coming.
9. 2027: A Pandemic is Thwarted. Imagining how the 100 Days Mission could
work in the future, by assessing an outbreak of a pandemic in Asia in the
future
Postscript
Resources and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
End Notes
Index
nations should not forget the risk of pandemics following the recovery from
Covid-19
Introduction: Meet Disease X. Disease X is the World Health Organization's
term for the next potential big pandemic. Previous examples include Ebola,
Zika and SARS. The world has a '100 Days Mission' to combat the next
Disease X
1. Prepare to be Scared. Pandemics are increasing in frequency and
seriousness. Novel viruses can spread in unusual ways and their growth can
be exponential.
2. Prepare to Move Fast. The increasing arrival of new communicable
diseases such as SARS, MERS and Zika (not to mention Covid-19) means that
the world's countries must be ready to act quickly: 'Making quick, decisive
moves in the early stage of a rapidly spreading disease outbreak is a
prerequisite for getting ahead of a potential pandemic.
3. Prepare to Take Risks. The necessity of pump priming the development of
vaccines by pharmaceutical companies to maximise the chances of effective
preventative medicine. Sometimes this money will be wasted; often it will
halt the exponential spread of a virus that could wreak devastation on
human populations.
4. Prepare to Share. Covid-19 showed that international cooperation is
essential to thwart the growth of diseases. Public health leaders such as
CEPI's Richard Hatchett devised an internationally fair system for sharing
vaccines, COVAX.
5. Prepare to Listen. Governments should listen to health experts who are
familiar with the spread of infectious diseases. Unfortunately, Britain's
Prime Minister during Covid-19, Boris Johnson, did not listen - or, at
least, did not act quickly enough.
6. Prepare to Fail. Many vaccine trials will fail. The search for a vaccine
for HIV has, for instance, repeatedly failed. However, the attempts to
develop a vaccine for HIV have led to breakthroughs in the development of
vaccines for other diseases. Scientific advancement is not linear and
requires patience.
7. Prepare to Spend Money. Pandemics cost trillions of dollars. Preventing
them through the timely development of vaccines and other preventative
measures costs much less. If the world spent a fraction of the money it
spends on the military annually (almost $2 trillion in 2020) on public
health instead, the world's population would benefit tangibly and
manifestly.
8. Prepare for the Next One... Because it's coming.
9. 2027: A Pandemic is Thwarted. Imagining how the 100 Days Mission could
work in the future, by assessing an outbreak of a pandemic in Asia in the
future
Postscript
Resources and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
End Notes
Index
Foreword by Sir Tony Blair. The former British Prime Minister warns that
nations should not forget the risk of pandemics following the recovery from
Covid-19
Introduction: Meet Disease X. Disease X is the World Health Organization's
term for the next potential big pandemic. Previous examples include Ebola,
Zika and SARS. The world has a '100 Days Mission' to combat the next
Disease X
1. Prepare to be Scared. Pandemics are increasing in frequency and
seriousness. Novel viruses can spread in unusual ways and their growth can
be exponential.
2. Prepare to Move Fast. The increasing arrival of new communicable
diseases such as SARS, MERS and Zika (not to mention Covid-19) means that
the world's countries must be ready to act quickly: 'Making quick, decisive
moves in the early stage of a rapidly spreading disease outbreak is a
prerequisite for getting ahead of a potential pandemic.
3. Prepare to Take Risks. The necessity of pump priming the development of
vaccines by pharmaceutical companies to maximise the chances of effective
preventative medicine. Sometimes this money will be wasted; often it will
halt the exponential spread of a virus that could wreak devastation on
human populations.
4. Prepare to Share. Covid-19 showed that international cooperation is
essential to thwart the growth of diseases. Public health leaders such as
CEPI's Richard Hatchett devised an internationally fair system for sharing
vaccines, COVAX.
5. Prepare to Listen. Governments should listen to health experts who are
familiar with the spread of infectious diseases. Unfortunately, Britain's
Prime Minister during Covid-19, Boris Johnson, did not listen - or, at
least, did not act quickly enough.
6. Prepare to Fail. Many vaccine trials will fail. The search for a vaccine
for HIV has, for instance, repeatedly failed. However, the attempts to
develop a vaccine for HIV have led to breakthroughs in the development of
vaccines for other diseases. Scientific advancement is not linear and
requires patience.
7. Prepare to Spend Money. Pandemics cost trillions of dollars. Preventing
them through the timely development of vaccines and other preventative
measures costs much less. If the world spent a fraction of the money it
spends on the military annually (almost $2 trillion in 2020) on public
health instead, the world's population would benefit tangibly and
manifestly.
8. Prepare for the Next One... Because it's coming.
9. 2027: A Pandemic is Thwarted. Imagining how the 100 Days Mission could
work in the future, by assessing an outbreak of a pandemic in Asia in the
future
Postscript
Resources and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
End Notes
Index
nations should not forget the risk of pandemics following the recovery from
Covid-19
Introduction: Meet Disease X. Disease X is the World Health Organization's
term for the next potential big pandemic. Previous examples include Ebola,
Zika and SARS. The world has a '100 Days Mission' to combat the next
Disease X
1. Prepare to be Scared. Pandemics are increasing in frequency and
seriousness. Novel viruses can spread in unusual ways and their growth can
be exponential.
2. Prepare to Move Fast. The increasing arrival of new communicable
diseases such as SARS, MERS and Zika (not to mention Covid-19) means that
the world's countries must be ready to act quickly: 'Making quick, decisive
moves in the early stage of a rapidly spreading disease outbreak is a
prerequisite for getting ahead of a potential pandemic.
3. Prepare to Take Risks. The necessity of pump priming the development of
vaccines by pharmaceutical companies to maximise the chances of effective
preventative medicine. Sometimes this money will be wasted; often it will
halt the exponential spread of a virus that could wreak devastation on
human populations.
4. Prepare to Share. Covid-19 showed that international cooperation is
essential to thwart the growth of diseases. Public health leaders such as
CEPI's Richard Hatchett devised an internationally fair system for sharing
vaccines, COVAX.
5. Prepare to Listen. Governments should listen to health experts who are
familiar with the spread of infectious diseases. Unfortunately, Britain's
Prime Minister during Covid-19, Boris Johnson, did not listen - or, at
least, did not act quickly enough.
6. Prepare to Fail. Many vaccine trials will fail. The search for a vaccine
for HIV has, for instance, repeatedly failed. However, the attempts to
develop a vaccine for HIV have led to breakthroughs in the development of
vaccines for other diseases. Scientific advancement is not linear and
requires patience.
7. Prepare to Spend Money. Pandemics cost trillions of dollars. Preventing
them through the timely development of vaccines and other preventative
measures costs much less. If the world spent a fraction of the money it
spends on the military annually (almost $2 trillion in 2020) on public
health instead, the world's population would benefit tangibly and
manifestly.
8. Prepare for the Next One... Because it's coming.
9. 2027: A Pandemic is Thwarted. Imagining how the 100 Days Mission could
work in the future, by assessing an outbreak of a pandemic in Asia in the
future
Postscript
Resources and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
End Notes
Index