U.N. Expert Discusses Health Security Pandemic Preparedness, Response At WIRED Security Conference

WIRED: Health security is a crisis. And you can’t negotiate with a disease
“…Dr. Alaa Murabit wants the world to get ready for the inevitable [next disease outbreak]. … According to data from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Britons are more concerned about the spread of infectious disease than they are about war. ‘We don’t have a blueprint on how to react appropriately,’ says Murabit, who was among the speakers at WIRED Security in London in September. ‘The U.K. is one of the 10 global political leaders and so has an onus on itself to respond better’…” (Bradley, 10/11).

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