World Health Organization launches strategy to protect people worldwide over the next decade against the threat of influenza, warning that new pandemics are “inevitable”. ICYMI
Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference after an Emergency Committee meeting on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
WHO’s new strategy, for 2019 through 2030, aims to prevent seasonal influenza, control the virus’s spread from animals to humans and prepare for the next pandemic, WHO said. Three pandemics have occurred since — in 1957, 1968 and in 2009 — when the H1N1 swine flu pandemic claimed around 18,500 lives in 214 countries.
The new strategy called for every country to strengthen routine health programmes and to develop tailor-made influenza programmes that strengthen disease surveillance, response, prevention, control, and preparedness.WHO recommends annual flu vaccines as the most effective way to prevent the spread of the disease, especially for healthcare workers and people at higher risk of influenza complications.
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