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Are we able to Prevent Future Pandemics? A ‎Lesson from Covid-19 Pandemic

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases

Abstract

Human faced a lot of pandemics, and WHO has a definition as well as regulations for different phases of pandemic. The aim of this commentary is giving an attention of the value to change these current definitions and regulations hoping to save people in the future and stop global spread of any infection. Outbreak of a novel corona virus was reported in China on December 2019. Sooner, a global spread was reported and WHO announced a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020. WHO declared it as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
If the current definitions and regulations of pandemic are changed, a global cooperative and supportive actions must be announced by secretary general of UN in any future health hazards with a possible global pandemic. Including support for global health care, economical support and local action plan to control outbreaks at site with UN support both medical and financial aiming to prevent further spread worldwide.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2021.98089.1182

Keywords

pandemic, COVID-19, Regulations, WHO, prevention

Authors

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Hamed

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Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt‎.‎

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tareqhamed@live.com

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First Name

Noha.

Last Name

Abdelsalam

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Affiliation

Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, ‎Zagazig, Egypt‎ ‎.‎

Email

nohaabelsalam49@gmail.com

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First Name

Dina

Last Name

Sarhan

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Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt‎.‎

Email

dinatawfek7@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Baz

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt‎.‎

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eman_albaz@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0001-5086-3312

Volume

11

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

28882

Issue Date

2021-12-01

Receive Date

2021-10-06

Publish Date

2021-12-01

Page Start

423

Page End

425

Print ISSN

2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

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12

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Opinions, Commentaries

Type Code

623

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023