Pandemic proofing the world: View point on tackling emerging zoonotic diseases
An Ethiopian woman breeds sheep for a living (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet).
On the matter of global health and tackling the looming threat of emerging infectious disease pandemics, Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) shares her views in a recent blog post, Pandemic proofing the world, published by How We Get To Next.
The post argues the case for greater attention to diseases that can be transmitted to people through livestock, better incentive structures for reporting of livestock disease outbreaks so that timely disease reporting is rewarded rather than punished, and the need to tackle the root causes and not just the symptoms of emerging zoonotic diseases.
Read the post, Pandemic proofing the world by Delia Grace, How We Get To Next, 29 June 2016
