2024-02-18 17:44:00
The picture shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holding a press conference at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on February 24, 2020. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, February 18, 2024](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Zhang Ting) Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), once again warned global leaders about the possibility of an outbreak. He said that the outbreak of new pathogens and epidemics is “a matter of when, not if.”
According to a Fox News report on February 17, Tedros told participants at the World Government Summit in Dubai a few days ago that he had issued a similar warning in 2018 that the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 was likely to Proved him right.
Tedros believes that the world is not ready for the next new epidemic. He once again emphasized the urgent need to reach a global treaty by May and refuted outside suspicions that this was an expansion of the WHO’s powers. He called the treaty a “mission of vital importance to humanity.”
“I stand before you today in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed millions and caused social, economic and political shocks that are still felt today,” he said.
“Although some progress has been made, such as improvements in (epidemic) surveillance, epidemic funds, vaccine production capacity building, etc…. the world is not yet ready for an epidemic.” Tedros said, “As people pay attention As attention turns to the many other crises facing our world, the hard lessons of our past risk being forgotten.”
The WHO director-general also said that if the world fails to learn these lessons, “we will pay a high price next time, and there will be a next time.”
“History tells us that the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if.” He added, “It could be caused by an influenza virus, a new coronavirus or something we don’t know yet. Caused by a new pathogen – we call it Disease X.”
Disease About eight years ago, it was included in the WHO’s research short list of pathogens that could cause “serious international epidemics,” according to a 2022 WHO press release.
“Judging from the current situation, the world is still unprepared for the next Disease X and the next pandemic.” Tedros said.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO has been strongly criticized by countries around the world for its slow response to investigate the COVID-19 outbreak that first broke out in Wuhan, China.
Under pressure from the outside world, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted for the first time at the end of March 2021 that the WHO investigation team was blocked in obtaining data during its investigation in China, and that the origin of the virus required further investigation.
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