Western Nations Must Invest In Vaccines, Treatments To Prepare For Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Piot Says

BBC News: Davos: Western world ‘vulnerable’ to epidemics, warns Ebola expert
“The Western world is ‘vulnerable’ to epidemics such as Ebola, and must invest more in researching vaccines, a leading scientist has warned. Prof Peter Piot [who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976] told the BBC that developed nations would be in ‘deep trouble’ if they failed to adequately prepare for another outbreak…” (Miller, 1/21).

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