OPINION | Preventing the next pandemic in East Asia and the Pacific By Benoit Bosquet, Daniel Dulitzky and Martien Van Nieuwkoop READ:
The East Asia and Pacific region, with its expanding agriculture, urban sprawl, extensive animal trade, and large concentration of human and livestock population, is particularly susceptible to such outbreaks, which unfortunately are increasingly common. The possibility of another pandemic is not far-fetched. A shift is critically needed, away from reactive responses toward a comprehensive, integrated approach aimed at prevention and preparation.
Multilateral institutions including the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Organization for Animal Health, and the World Health Organization as well as individual countries are renewing their commitments to the One Health approach, which mobilizes sectors and communities to work together and use interventions that cut across a range of sectors, including health, environmental, agriculture, and food to address the complex...
In recent years, countries in the region have updated legislation relating to animal health, diseases transferable from animals to humans, and food safety, but considerable gaps remain in policies and in the implementation of national action plans. Steps should be taken now to improve coordination and the exchange of critical data between human health, animal health, and environmental health sectors.
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