The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, came out swinging at the opening ceremony of the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva on Monday. The meeting of health officials from nearly 200 countries is usually a low-key, bureaucratic affair. Chan, however, opened the assembly by basically saying that the world is facing unprecedented global health challenges right now and is ill-equipped to deal with future threats.
"For infectious diseases, you cannot trust the past when planning for the future," she warned.
Chan said emerging diseases, climate change, new global transportation networks and the failure of "more and more" antibiotics make the planet ripe for the next pandemic....
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/23/479199256/whos-stern-warning-the-world-is-not-prepared-to-cope-with-pandemics?sc=tw
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