“We don’t have a national active monitoring system for pandemic potential diseases, and it’s kind of crazy…”

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Author

Brendan O’Leary

Published

2024-05-14

Steven Roach of the Food Animal Concerns Trust, as quoted in STAT’s article on the USDA and FDA turf battles that are hampering responses to outbreaks like H5N1 bird flu:

I would say the biggest problem is we don’t have a national active monitoring system for pandemic potential diseases, and it’s kind of crazy that we don’t after Covid.

This post originally appeared on LinkedIn.