UN Seeks Global Cooperation As New Diseases Emerge

www.allAfrica.com The United Nation has reported that new diseases are rising at a rapid rate. With theses diseases rising so quickly it they have the ability to cross borders quickly. One reason that these diseases are spreading is because of air travel. There are so many people traveling internationally and carrying diseases they don’t know about so then they are making it easier for the disease to spread in hours. One of these diseases is the bird flu virus which has already affected 321 people and has killed 194 of them. This is one of the diseases that could quickly be spread by human to human contact. To help this problem the United Nation wants global surveillance. They want the nations to have outbreak alerts and response. They want stronger global health care and to do this they feel that they should share knowledge. The nations should do virus samples and other lab test. Also they suggest that each nation should do prevention campaigns and global and national training for resources. To me hearing about this is scary. You never know what kind of diseases you could have just by sitting beside somebody on an airplane that looks perfectly healthy. After reading this I agree that the nations need to step up there surveillance so that some disease want come and wipe out all human kind. I think the problem can be solved if all the nations are put on high alert about the problems.