Experts warn - in the coming decades, mankind will inevitably face a global pandemic. What kind of virus it will cause is not yet known, but epidemiologists believe that the carriers of the pathogen will be animals. Reducing the risks will help the accelerated development of new drugs and vaccines, as well as cooperation between countries. The problem of a global pandemic is closely related to the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. As early as 2016, the UN recognized that the stability situation had reached a critical point. As Futurism writes, in September there was a significant shortage of new developments aimed at combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Experts of the World Health Organization warn that without new medicines, humanity can roll back into the past when a common infection or a surgical operation resulted in the death of a person. Viruses are also becoming more resistant to vaccines and medicines. Epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that a mutated avian influenza virus (A H7N9) can cause a global pandemic that will be difficult to stop. In an interview with Futurism, Dr. Molecular Medicine University of Queens in Kingston Gerald A. Evans also cited the example of the influenza virus: "Look at how the 2009 pandemic of H1N1 (swine flu) swept the US and Mexico in a few weeks, and a month after the virus was detected, infections were recorded around the world. But this virus is not the most contagious ". The expert warns - within 50 years, mankind will face a global pandemic. But when exactly it will happen and which pathogen will provoke the outbreak, until no one knows. However, Evans believes that the cause will be a respiratory zoonotic virus, the carriers of which are animals. Evans compares the probability of an epidemic with the probability of an asteroid falling: "One can only imagine when a large asteroid hits the Earth. Only pandemics occur more often than collisions with asteroids ". According to the biologist, the problem can be solved by stable surveillance of the spread of diseases. Supervisory systems still operate according to an outdated scheme and need to be reformed.

Also, Evans believes that without cooperation between countries can not do. But so far the situation in the world political arena does not have this: "Now the world politics is more oriented inward, that is why we are unlikely to succeed [cooperation] in the near future". In addition, the scientist proposes to pay more attention to the development of new vaccines and medicines and to accelerate the processes of their creation. This will require a more developed global infrastructure. Source: High Tech.