Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”

Despite lessons that should have been learned during COVID-19, the world is unprepared for the next pandemic, be it an influenza virus, another coronavirus, or “Disease X”—a term the organization has used since 2018 to refer to a yet-unknown pandemic pathogen, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, speaking virtually from Geneva at the summit, held in Coventry, England.

  • @meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works
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    1111 months ago

    lol, good luck with that shit when you can’t even get countries to not poison their own air, water, and land. no country will give up the technological and military advantage of understanding more about a pathogen than rivals.

    We used to sling plague corpses with catapults to break sieges and weaponized anthrax - employees at Porton Downs are salivating at making a new weaponized horror for the world.