As COVID turns 3,Experts are worried about the origin of the next pandemic
COVID turns 3: Public health professionals have long expressed concern that a disease like covid could spread worldwide and kill millions of people. After all, that had previously occurred. Around the world, precautions were taken to detect any early indications of a previously unknown bug that might be hazardous.
The World Health Organization
was informed by China that a novel virus was spreading in Wuhan, the most populated city in central China, on December 31, 2019. A wet market that sold live animals was shut down the following day in that 12-million-person city out of concern that it was the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Even three years later, there is still a chance that a lethal pathogen will spread worldwide.
Now, researchers are worried about research accidents and – what should be unfathomable – the potential of someone purposefully unleashing a highly contagious and dangerous pathogen. In addition to worrying about a virus that might transfer from animals to humans.
According to Lawrence Gostin
A renowned expert in global health and professor of public health law at Georgetown University. A pandemic poses a significantly greater threat to international security than conventional, nuclear, or chemical warfare.
Other pandemics have been more deadly, even if this one has so far claimed the lives of more than 6.6 million people globally. For instance, it is believed that the 1918 flu cost 50 million lives worldwide. And the Black Death in the 14th century killed between 30 and 60 percent of all Europeans in just four years.
Experts in public health and national defense are concerned that the cost of the next pandemic will be even higher than it was for this one. And the country must be prepared.
The following epidemic might be worse.
According to Gostin, the next pandemic will most likely originate in nature. Natural mutations could cause a highly dangerous strain of swine or avian flu to mutate and spread to people. Long before COVID-19, that scenario kept health professionals like Gostin up at night.
However, other reasons could exist.
Gostin, the author of the book “Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future”. Stated that there are numerous threats, including lab leaks, bioterrorism, bioweapons, and naturally occurring zoonotic spillovers.
After the initial SARS and the much more deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The covid virus is the third coronavirus to offer a serious health risk. A second coronavirus with SARS-infectious CoV-2's capacity. And MERS's 30% mortality rate would be dangerous for the economy, supply networks, and healthcare system, not to mention for human life.
Threats from bioterrorism after covid
In order to stop nations from ever creating or producing biological weapons. The global Biological Weapons Convention was established in March 1975. Since then, it has generally held, that some of the treaty's signatories are thought to have had or now have secret projects.
For instance, Christine Parthemore, CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks. A nonprofit, nonpartisan security policy institute, noted that the Soviet Union previously attempted to genetically modify Ebola to make it a more contagious infection, but that effort didn't go well.
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