Editorial: Emerging infections and global health security: the case (again) for strengthening all-hazards preparedness and response under IHR-2005

摘要

The World Economic Forum in Davos in 2008 highlighted the quotation by French Poet, Paul Valery, “the problem of our times is that our future is not what it used to be”. Nothing could be truer today as we face outbreaks of Ebola at unprecedented levels, which threaten our social fabric globally.