The researchers say the finding is an important reminder that identifying new viruses in animals and quickly determining their potential to infect people is a key way to
reduce global health threats.
«Climate change is the biggest
global health threat of the 21st century,» a team of British scientists and academics wrote in The Lancet last year.
Now the World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping such misguided behavior will help it win changes in a 52 - year - old international treaty aimed at
controlling global health threats.
Only 20 % of countries are currently able to rapidly detect, respond to or
prevent global health threats from emerging infections, like MERS and Ebola, according to CDC data.
The report, «Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change,» concluded, «Climate change is the
biggest global health threat of the 21st century.»
In 2009 one of the world's leading medical journals, the Lancet, declared climate change «the biggest
global health threat of the 21st century».
As obesity becomes
a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body — and about the many factors that bring it on.
Influenza — particularly pandemic strains that emerge periodically as flu viruses mix and form novel strains — remains
a global health threat.
Ebola is only the latest — if the most severe —
global health threat that the world has faced in recent years.
«Only when a comprehensive multi-pronged strategy is used can we hope to successfully address
this global health threat.»
«HIV infections may not disappear in the foreseeable future, but the AIDS epidemic can be ended as
a global health threat,» the report asserts.
The 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza pandemic demonstrated
the global health threat of reassortant influenza strains.
Since then, it has established itself as a significant and
global health threat.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus
a global health threat, based on the suspicion that the virus may be to blame for thousands of birth defects in Brazil in the past year.
The White House's $ 1.8 billion funding request followed a WHO emergency declaration last week that the Zika virus is now
a global health threat.
Rabies remains
a global health threat with tens of thousands of human deaths every year, mostly in Asia and Africa.
A major study in the Lancet described climate change as «the biggest
global health threat of the 21st century».
Fast action to reduce HFC use is easy and possible due to many cost - effective and energy efficient alternatives, and has the potential to achieve near - term climate benefits that will help address
the global health threat posed by climate change.
Climate change may be «the biggest
global health threat of the 21st Century» and one which will put the wellbeing of billions of people around the world at increased risk.
Dioxins are considered by some to be
a global health threat because they persist in the environment and can travel long distances.