Fear over global, infectious disease outbreaks encourages 27 countries to form pact.

 This fear of global disease outbreaks has caused the new Global Health Security to aim to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases. The problem at hand is that most poor countries are not prepared to contain or detect outbreaks, which could in return have extreme global consequences.

            The majority of these 27 countries are poorer and not prepared for global health and disease threats. They do not have effective disease- surveillance and control systems, which could help, contain and detect certain outbreaks. The US is already spending 300 million dollars a year to construct laboratories and other health related security overseas. The Global Health Securities plan is to prevent the possibility of these outbreaks by having a very limited amount of labs that hold dangerous microbes and also by providing more vaccination programs.

            The over all goals are to prevent the threat and probability of global disease outbreak. If this is the over all goal than certain actions must be taken. First there is the need for funding and political support worldwide. The countries that agreed to try to improve the prevention of global disease had until June 2012 to strengthen surveillance to detect disease and 84% failed to do so.  The main reason these countries failed to do so is because many of them cant afforded the cost that it takes to detect these diseases and therefore preventing outbreaks is much more unlikely.

            Another very troubling issue is the transporting of certain samples to facilities and labs that can conduct the proper testing of early detection. The key is finding a system that is fast and safe for countries to be able to send samples and receive feedback and results as quickly as possible.  Global disease prevention is a worldwide problem and will cause us to work together with other countries in order to prevent a global epidemic. This issue will impact all countries worldwide so therefore the importance of helping poorer countries prevent and detect possible outbreaks is crucial.

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