World Health Organization

WHO Fights Emerging Diseases

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 30th, 1995

Chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast get the Ebola virus every other autumn, but doctors have never had the money to study them for clues about the baffling disease that kills people quickly and horribly.

Now the United Nations' (U.N.) World Health Organization (WHO) is starting the first global system to contain emerging diseases like Ebola fast when they infect people, and eventually to prevent them through such research as a now-pending study of those chimps.

"This is a new way of acting for WHO," said Dr. David Heymann, who describes the emerging disease division he started October 1, [1995], as the agency's "first kind of SWAT team effort."

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