How can pandemics be prevented?

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The new coronavirus is spreading quickly despite an extraordinary
quarantine in China. The [3]Washington Post reports more than 4,400 people
in China have been infected, and 106 have died. Five cases have been
confirmed in the United States, according to [4]NBC News.

Pandemics are nothing new, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The bottom line lesson is
pandemics happen — they happened before we were here, they’re happening
now, and they’ll continue to happen." Fauci and other public health experts
at [5]Aspen Ideas: Health said global travel, the development of
antibiotics, and working across borders make fighting today's infectious
diseases challenging.
* Explore our collection: [6]Going viral: Infectious disease in the 21st
century

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"For each virus, we have to figure out what its Achilles heel is — so what
part of our immune system is going to be able to get rid of that virus? And
that is a long process."

Hear more from Nancy Sullivan, chief of the Biodefense Research Section at
the Vaccine Research Center, in the Health session [8]Pandemics and the
Existential Threat to Global Security.

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