![]() ![]() We have more advanced detection capacity now with genetic analysis and other kinds of ways that we can see where these invisible microbes are spreading and changing. we know there's certain places that have higher risk of pathogens emerging, and we can do kind of active surveillance in those places by mapping the microbes that are there, by surveilling people or animals who are more likely to spread or to have spill-overs of microbes into their bodies. That's kind of after the fire has started, then we rush in with our fire extinguishers.īut to really prevent them would mean stepping it way farther back, and that is possible now, because. ![]() But that's not actually preventing these pathogens from emerging and from causing outbreaks. How?Ī lot of times when we talk about being more prepared in preventing pathogens from spreading or preventing pandemics, what we're really talking about is first response, stepping up our first response, so that when we have outbreaks of disease that our hospitals are prepared and we have vaccines stockpiled and we are able to fly our experts around really quickly to get to the scene of the outbreak, and things like that. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Pandemic Subtitle Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond Author Sonia Shah ![]()
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