Preventing The Next Pandemic Av Peter J. (Dean For The National School Of Tropical Medicine Baylor College Of Medicine) Hotez

<p><b>The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post¿COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?</b></p><p>Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a new troubling anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. From such twenty-first-century forces, we have seen declines in previous global health gains, with sharp increases in vaccine-preventable and neglected diseases on the Arabian Peninsula, in Venezuela, in parts of Africa, and even on the Gulf Coast of the United States. In <i>Preventing the Next Pandemic</i>, international vaccine scientist and tropical disease and coronavirus expert Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, argues that we can¿and must¿rely on vaccine diplomacy to address this new world