A World at Risk

Author:
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
Publisher:
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
Publication Date:
18 September 2019
Tags:
Africa, Health and Medicine

This report notes that a global respiratory pathogen could spread across the world in 36 hours, killing as many as 80 million people and take five percent off the world's economy. It proposes seven key steps that need to be taken to ensure the world's health system is strengthened. 

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