Pandemic prevention
July 26, 2013
Researchers from Australia,
Singapore and the US are joining
forces, through a AU$20 million
partnership, to help pre-empt and
prepare the world for the next
human pandemic.
Speaking in Canberra yesterday,
before a gathering of Australia’s
leading biosecurity researchers,
Dr Gary Fitt, CSIRO Biosecurity
Flagship Director, said recent global
events highlighted the need to
ramp up research into viruses that
spread from animals to humans.
“We now know that 70 per cent
of new diseases in people have
originated in animals,” Dr Fitt said.
“We are lucky to have a strong
biosecurity system, backed by
world-class science, but we live in
an increasingly connected world
with trade and people movements
putting us at greater risk.”
CSIRO and Duke-NUS (an alliance
between Duke University in North
Carolina, USA and the National
University of Singapore) have
signed a relationship agreement
with a view to forming the
International Collaborative Centre
for One Health to assist in taking
a new approach to tackling these
deadly viruses.
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