Overview of what WHO says communities need beyond treatment
When Ebola or Marburg strikes a community, the immediate concern is containment. But the disruption those outbreaks leave behind runs much deeper than the number of confirmed cases. Jobs disappear. Schools close. Food supply chains break down. Families caring for the sick face social exclusion long after the outbreak is declared over. A new guidance […]
Respiratory outbreak SARS exposed cracks in global health systems
SARS illness does not always announce itself with obvious warning signs. In the wet markets of Guangdong, China, in late 2002 A new virus, later identified as a coronavirus, is believed to have crossed from civet cats to humans and begun moving quietly through a population that had no immunity to it and no name […]
Increasing drug resistance by superbugs is quietly building toward the next global health crisis
The World Health Organization has raised a flag that the global healthcare community cannot afford to ignore. Nearly one in six infection-causing microbes is now resistant to antibiotic treatment, and between 2018 and 2023, resistance levels rose in more than 40 percent of the pathogen and antibiotic combinations being monitored. The average annual increase during […]