Preventing future pandemics and epidemics through a North-South collaboration on genomic surveillance in Africa

Abstract

The economy and health of the world’s population have been recurrently affected by infectious diseases since records began in the early 1900s, including large epidemic events that involved diseases such as the ‘Spanish influenza’, West Nile fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, ‘Swine influenza’, Zika, HIV/AIDS, SARS-CoV-1, MERS, COVID-19, Monkeypox, to name but a few [...]

Keywords

• pandemics
• epidemics
• north-south collaboration
• genomic surveillance
• africa