Etiket: pandemics
Climate Change | Increased risk of new pandemics
There will be 15,000 crossings of a virus from one animal species to another by 2070, estimates a new study. However, such viral transmissions sometimes lead to an adaptation of…
ZicTrad: zoom on the oc songs of pandemics!
The ZicTrad website is dedicated to traditional songs and music. Its author, Thibaut Plantevin, invites us this morning to evoke with lightness the songs which speak of the disease, with…
COVID-19: how do pandemics end?
History shows that the viruses, bacteria and other microbes behind pandemics stop spreading when they no longer find hosts in which to proliferate. And there are only three ways to…
Coronavirus: for an international treaty on pandemics
On December 6, Ms. Bartha Maria Knoppers and Messrs Michael Beauvais and Daniel Turp wrote in these pages that Canada and Quebec must show the way with regard to the…
For a global treaty on the response to pandemics
The arrival of the Omicron variant is a stark reminder that COVID-19 remains a global problem requiring coordinated, fair and just responses. Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) having…
Pandemics | The international community will negotiate to better arm the WHO
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Geneva) The member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO), struggling for two years with COVID-19, on Wednesday launched a negotiation process for…
Coronavirus: giving the WHO the power to track down the next pandemics
Pandemic, year 2: the consequences of the coronavirus are still and always more obvious than its origin located in China, probably in November or December 2019. Difficulty in finding with…
in Switzerland, a laboratory is preparing for tomorrow’s pandemics
Spiez, in German-speaking Switzerland, is a charming little town by a lake, with cows, snow-capped mountains all around, postcard decor … and next door, a laboratory. As a new wave…
COVID-19 and future pandemics | US to boost RNA vaccine production
(Washington) The American health authorities announced on Wednesday that they wanted to produce one billion more doses of messenger RNA vaccines each year, from 2022, “for the current pandemic” and…
Worst epidemics and pandemics in history
Active for almost two years, the COVID-19 pandemic is already one of the deadliest in history, with at least 5 million deaths worldwide. A look back at the epidemics and…