Report Warns That The World Is Not Ready For The Next Pandemic

The Guardian: Pharmaceutical giants not ready for next pandemic, report warns

Ten of the world’s most infectious diseases identified by the WHO not being catered for by drug firms

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firms are little prepared for the next pandemic despite a mounting response to the Covid-19 outbreak, an independent report has warned.

Jayasree K Iyer, executive director of the Netherlands-based Access to Medicine Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation funded by the UK and Dutch governments and others, highlighted an outbreak of the Nipah virus in China, with a fatality rate of up to 75%, as potentially the next big pandemic risk.

“Nipah virus is another emerging infectious disease that causes great concern,” she said. “Nipah could blow any moment. The next pandemic could be a drug-resistant infection.”

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WNU Editor: There are a lot of things that we are not doing right now, and not developing new antibiotics that can combat diseases and infections that are drug resistant are on the top of my list. But as my brother who is in the bio-tech field told me last year. There is no money to be made to research and develop new medicines to combat drug-resistant infections.