Preempting the Next Pandemic
The diversity and resilience of deadly viruses make it difficult to develop effective global containment and prevention strategies. But while biology plays a role, the biggest obstacle to protecting public health is the uniquely human trait of bickering over money and how it should be spent.
SYRACUSE – Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge. But the sheer diversity, resilience, and transmissibility of deadly diseases have also highlighted, in the starkest of terms, just how difficult containment and prevention can be.