The World Health Organization launches a new network to detect infectious diseases
The World Health Organization launches a new network to detect infectious diseases
The World Health Organization launches a new network to detect infectious diseases
The World Health Organization announced the launch of an international surveillance network for rapid detection of threats related to new infectious diseases such as “Corona”, and the exchange of information to prevent epidemics.
The organization stated that the ABSN network will connect experts in genetics and data analysis from the public, academic and private sectors from all over the world, and will facilitate the rapid identification and tracking of infectious diseases. In order to prevent health disasters.
She noted that the network will be based on genomics, including sequencing the genomes of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, and studying their performance to determine their ability to transmit, its severity and method of spread, in addition to developing treatments and vaccines.
For his part, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Gebreisos, said: The new measures are “ambitious” and can play a “vital role in health security,” noting that the network will have a secretariat within the organization’s “Hap for Pandemic and Epidemiological Intelligence” center. .
