The White House Blog: The Ticking Timeline
Beth Cameron, director for countering biological threats at the National Security Council, writes about progress on the Global Health Security Agenda. “…As the Ebola epidemic — and before it, the crises caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, anthrax attacks and avian influenza — has shown us, we can neither prevent epidemics nor protect ourselves unless all of us act, swiftly, and in concert. To prevent the next outbreak from becoming an epidemic, all countries must have capacity and a plan to get there…” (5/27).