“International Pathogen Surveillance Network: Preventing Pandemics with Rapid Detection and Data-Sharing”

2023-05-21 14:38:34

The World Health Organization launched this Saturday, May 20, an international surveillance network to quickly detect emerging infectious diseases such as Covid-19, and to share data to prevent pandemics, foreign media reported.

The International Pathogen Surveillance Network is a platform to connect countries and regions and improve the collection and analysis of samples, said WHO, quoted by the French daily “Liberation “.

The network must allow the rapid identification and traceability of infectious diseases, as well as the sharing of data and the necessary measures to be taken to prevent health crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, indicates the same source.

The data collected will be used as part of a broader surveillance system to detect infectious diseases in order to intervene to prevent their spread and to develop appropriate treatments and vaccines.

This international pathogen surveillance network might play “a vital role for security in the field of health”, “all share a common objective: to detect and respond to the threats posed by diseases before they become epidemics and pandemics and optimize routine disease surveillance,” the WHO stressed.

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