World health chief warns a pandemic that will kill millions ‘could start in any country at any time’
Dr Tedros Adhanom is the director general of the World Health Organization
He claims the next outbreak will be ‘terrible’ on humans and the economy
Dr Tedros was speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week
By STEPHEN MATTHEWS
DAILYMAIL.COM
14 February 2018
Humanity is ‘vulnerable’ to a pandemic that could kill millions, the chief of the World Health Organization has warned.
Dr Tedros Adhanom, director general of the WHO, claims the next outbreak will have a ‘terrible toll’ on the population and economy.
Fears of a pandemic have mounted lately, following the worst flu outbreak in recent years that has rocked the US, Australia, France and the UK.
A plague outbreak in Madagascar last November also shook the medical community, and left them concerned it would spread across the world rapidly.
While the most recent pandemic, mosquito-borne Zika virus, struck 70 countries in 2016 and took concerned scientists by surprise.
Speaking about the threat of another at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this week, Dr Tedros said: ‘This is not some future nightmare scenario.
‘A devastating epidemic could start in any country at any time and kill millions of people because we are still not prepared. The world remains vulnerable.’
He added: ‘We do not know where and when the next global pandemic will occur, but we know it will take a terrible toll both on human life and on the economy.’
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