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New survey highlights disease outbreak concerns
A new survey from Abbott shows that leading infectious disease experts around the world believe significant gaps remain in building surveillance programmes to identify emerging pathogens, public health funding and having adequate testing infrastructure capabilities.
Despite this, those surveyed did feel the state of pandemic preparedness around the world has improved since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The survey, commissioned by the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, asked more than 100 experts in virology, epidemiology
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and infectious diseases around the world about their priorities for addressing the gaps in readiness for disease outbreaks, their views on how the changing environment is impacting infectious diseases, and their suggestions for building a resilient healthcare system capable of identifying and responding to emerging disease outbreaks around the world. “Just as scientists have developed sophisticated monitoring systems to track emerging storms and hurricanes, our job as virus hunters is to identify pathogens that have the potential to spark outbreaks in
order to stay one step ahead,” said Gavin Cloherty PhD, Head of Infectious Disease Research at Abbott and head of the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition. Experts identified mosquito-borne pathogens (61%) as representing the greatest threat to human health as the climate changes, compared to avian (21%), animal (14%) or tick-borne (4%) pathogens. As part of the survey, respondents were asked to share their priorities for addressing the most urgent gaps in the world’s current state of readiness. Surveillance programmes to identify emerging pathogens, funding for public health infrastructure, testing infrastructure capabilities, increasing the numbers of epidemiologists and frontline workers, and diagnostic test development were cited as the top five areas for investment.
Read the full report at https://
www.abbott.com/
virushunters.html
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