The Need of Preparing Regional Leaders with the Knowledge, Training and Instruments for Information Sharing and Decision-Making against Biological Threats and Pandemics. Preparing for the Next Pandemic

摘要

1. Are the Populations Protected from Biothreats? Today mankind is facing unprecedented challenges. Contemporary geopolitical and cultural conflicts, biology and natural disasters pose enormous strains on social order and economic stability, particularly in developing and underdeveloped, resource-poor nations and even in developed countries. Along with anthropogenic and technogenic threats the natural ones shake regions and the world in whole from time to time.