WHO calls for global cooperation to fight disease

Governments around the world need to work closely to ensure the safety of human health, as the disease has now crossed the national border. That is the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the report ' A safer future ' announced yesterday.

In the report, Margaret Chan, WHO's general director, said before when people mostly traveled by boat, strange diseases were rare. Today, more than 2 billion people travel by plane every year, increasing the likelihood of spreading infectious agents worldwide.

Over the past five years, WHO has confirmed more than 1,100 outbreaks globally. Currently, there are 39 new pathogens that are not available in the previous generation, including HIV / AIDS, Ebola, SARS, etc. Margaret Chan's report: 'New diseases are increasing at tremendous speed. Never seen, every year a new disease. The assumption that there will be no serious diseases like AIDS, Ebola or SARS is very naive and complacent. '

WHO's efforts to protect global health are embodied in the revised International Health Code, effective June this year. Under these voluntary provisions, governments are obliged to report to potentially dangerous cases to WHO.

However, the fact shows that nearly half of the epidemic warning reports are provided by the media, and then the affected countries conduct disease monitoring. The WHO report urges countries to join hands to share knowledge, technology and virus samples to help monitor and warn diseases better.

Taking blood samples for relatives of a woman who died of bird flu in Indonesia on August 22.Recently, Indonesia did not accept sharing H5N1 virus samples with WHO for fear of losing "monopoly" of vaccine production (Photo: TTO)

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