Đăng ký: VietNam News
| Professor Peter Piot stressed that it’s time the UK and Europe had a well-trained corps of people who are globally experienced and deployable, adding the UK must create a new health security agency to guard against future pandemics. Peter Piot, a Belgian microbiologist and Director of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, known for his research into Ebola said in an interview, that Britain and Europe lacked “an epidemic intelligence service” with global reach, leaving them “vulnerable” and less able to intervene in overseas health crises such as the Ebola outbreak, which has killed thousands of people in West Africa. Piot has been highly critical of the delay in local and international responses to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, but said that now the effort is paying off. On December 26th, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the death toll from Ebola in the three western Africa countries had risen to 7,695 of the 19,695 confirmed cases. Nearly 40 years after his discovery, made when he was only 27, Professor Piot is one of the foremost experts in the never-ending war against infectious disease. Having identified one deadly virus, he went on to devote much of his life to the fight against another HIV. He was the founding director of Unaids, the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids, a position he held from 1995 to 2008. He has held key positions in the United Nations and WHO involving AIDS research. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide./. |