Global failure to prepare for pandemics ‘gambling with children’s future’
by Kat Lay, Global health correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#6NKTC)
Lessons from Ebola and Covid were not learned, say Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as they launch report calling for urgent action
World leaders are gambling with their children's and grandchildren's health and wellbeing" by failing to prepare for a future pandemic, a new report warns.
Amid surging cases of H5N1 bird flu in mammals, and an mpox outbreak in central Africa, two senior stateswomen have said the lack of preparation had left the world vulnerable to devastation".
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