Experts: A virus can spread quickly, and the world is not ready for it

As a result, a new pandemic would arrive before we can think about it and the world is not ready for it, experts say.

As foreign media write, Telegrafi traces, the ministers of world governments “have faced” with a new epidemic of an unknown virus that kills people and is rapidly expanding.

It is even said to be resistant to antibiotics.

Within a week, major institutions were shut down and thousands of people were quarantined. Fear and panic also spread to surrounding lands where even infected people die.

Although a simulated scenario, this was the epidemic scenario held at the World Bank's annual conference in Washington.
It is not an event that this institution would normally be taken exclusively, but it is the fourth exercise organised by the World Bank.

Similar to the simulated case, it was reportedly the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in the short term.

We'd like to be better prepared in such a case because the probability of something like that happening again is 100 percent. A repeat is possible earlier than we can imagine”, said Tim Evans, director of health, nutrition and population at the World Bank.

According to experts, life - threatening infections spread faster and more unpredictable than ever.

This is further reportedly indicated by the Madagascar plague that killed more than 100 people since August.
In fact, the number of pneumonia wounds spread by coughing, sneezing, and saliva has increased by 70 percent.

The Marburg virus was reported in Uganda, but if it spreads, hundreds of people can become infected. It's a bleeding fever similar to ebola.

“In today's information time, much faster they travel through informal channels. We've asked officials to make it clear how, in case of an explosion, it's important that they have the right information at the right time, and they don't rely on daily reports”, said Ron Klein, who was the chief co-ordinator in the US at the time of the Ebola epidemics, whose virus had infected American citizens.

As concern has been raised the fact that in the past, some countries have refused to publish timely information on epidemics, especially in tourism-dependent countries, there is political and economic pressures not to take actions that may be counterproductive to their economies.

And while awareness of danger is increasing, experts agree that the world is not prepared for a new epidemic.
Next year will be 100 years after the flu pandemic that killed 50 million people worldwide.

And we're not really ready for a pandemic, which would be half the smallest consequence. And such a threat exists even further”, has ended Klein.