There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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