https://time.com/6202044/preparing-for-next-pandemic-virus-hunters/
August 1, 2022 10:00 AM EDT. N obody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqQYNMNsog
Abbot's Pandemic Defense Coalition is the first public-private effort led by industry to bring scientists around the world together to track current and emer

https://www.abbott.com/virushunters.html
We can't fight what we can't see coming. To stop history from repeating itself — and to protect our health, communities and economies — experts around the world are joining forces to stay one step ahead of the next viral threat. Introducing the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition (APDC), the first industry-led global scientific and public

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-stop-next-animal-borne-pandemic-180967908/
Tesh doesn't think you can predict the next outbreak for two main reasons. First, viruses like Zika and West Nile aren't actually new; they were transported to new areas and then spilled over

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/natgeos-virus-hunters-showcases-scientists-racing-to-stop-next-pandemic/
reader comments 95. As much damage as the current coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the world at large—killing over 230,000 American citizens alone so far, and nearly 1.2 million people

https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/diagnostics-testing/virus-hunt-sharpens-to-stop-new-potential-pandemics.html
Bangui Virus: An Ancient Virus, Found Again. While discovering an ancient virus seems like the start to a new TV series, a new study, published in the Virus Evolution journal and supported by the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, had a more anticlimactic ending. As part of the Coalition's viral surveillance work, Abbott scientists trained in metagenomics and next-generation sequencing

https://www.ft.com/content/2a80e4a2-7fb9-4e2c-9769-bc0d98382a5c
Hunting for new viruses has become more difficult during an actual pandemic, but it has never been more important. This year, Covid-19 has brought some of the most powerful countries in the world

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/15/1152892721/how-to-stop-pandemics
Symptoms for the MERS virus in Kenya are unknown. For decades, scientists pretty much thought they understood how pandemics, such as COVID-19, began. It centers on this idea of what's called

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/5/7/22973296/virus-hunting-discovery-deep-vzn-global-virome-project
May 7, 2022, 4:00 AM PDT. Researchers examine a bat as part of their search for dangerous animal pathogens in the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative Lab in Yaounde, Cameroon, in July 2011. Global

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03362-8
Five ways to prepare for the next pandemic. COVID-19 and other infectious-disease outbreaks can teach us how to respond to future threats. By. Devi Sridhar. The emergency phase of COVID-19 might

https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/diagnostics-testing/the-grandmasters-of-virus-surveillance.html
That's why we need to recruit and inspire next-generation Virus Hunters. To do that, Abbott's Pandemic Defense Coalition is bringing more trained Virus Hunters to the front lines. This first-of-its-kind, industry-led, global scientific network is dedicated to the early detection of, and rapid response to, future pandemic threats.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01441-2
Young Ki Choi: Following the flu and COVID-19 pandemics, the continuous outbreaks of novel viral infections underscore the threats of the next potential pandemic, the so-called 'Disease X

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pandemic-virus-hunters-pathogen-x-60-minutes/
The original video can be viewed here. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed scientists in 2022. No cases were discovered outside Africa, but

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/20/989074708/anatomy-of-a-spillover-we-failed-to-stop-sars-cov-2-how-do-find-the-next-big-one
For decades, the U.S. has spent many millions hunting down viruses in hope of stopping a pandemic. Yet the efforts failed. A group of researchers thinks there's a better strategy for the future.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/virus-hunters-pathogens-covid-pandemic-prevention/
Conservation scientists in the Congo have recruited 5,800 hunters from more than 290 villages to conduct virus surveillance. Four years later, in late 2019, Mason and his colleagues started

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23871624/usaid-deep-vzn-pandemics-viruses-covid-coronavirus-cdc-virology-pathogens
Thai researchers doing US-backed virus-hunting work were repeatedly bitten by bats, a Washington Post story earlier this year reported. Ultimately, they concluded that the work they were doing

https://asm.org/Magazine/2022/Fall/Hunting-for-the-Next-Pandemic-Virus
Hunting for Viruses Is Not Enough to Prevent Zoonotic Pandemics. Nevertheless, Carlson cautioned that "knowing about a virus does not inherently make us more prepared.". Indeed, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-1 hinted at the potential threat of SARS-like coronaviruses, yet knowing about the threat did not stop COVID-19.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/01/29/1151039454/9-diseases-virus-epidemiologists-pandemic-potential-who
Pandemic potential: Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which can spread before people know they're infectious, this SARS virus is usually spread only by those with known symptoms, making it much easier to contain

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-virus-hunters/
Launched in 2009 as part of USAID's Emerging Pandemic Threats program, the Predict project was renewed in 2014 with a grant of $100 million over five years to develop a sprawling, searchable

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8csu1z
Abbot's Pandemic Defense Coalition is the first public-private effort led by industry to bring scientists around the world together to track current and emerging pathogens. The team is collecting virus samples from all over the world, searching for mutations, and so far they managed to alert the world to several that have swept the globe—including Gamma from a lab in Brazil and Omicron

https://time.com/6204798/scientists-stop-future-pandemics-video/
This group of researchers is combining research with infectious disease diagnostics, to enable early detection of COVID-19 and minimize the spread of the virus

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/preventingfuturepandemics/
The cost of preventing the next pandemic is 2% of the cost we're paying for COVID-19. A study published in Science, "Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention," found that the costs of preventing future zoonotic outbreaks like COVID-19—by preventing deforestation and regulating the wildlife trade—are as little as $22 billion a year, 2% of the economic and mortality costs of

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8068197/
Abstract. Despite many recent efforts to predict and control emerging infectious disease threats to humans, we failed to anticipate the zoonotic viruses which led to pandemics in 2009 and 2020. The morbidity, mortality, and economic costs of these pandemics have been staggering. We desperately need a more targeted, cost-efficient, and

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/insider/covid-bird-flu-pandemic.html
In an interview, Ms. Mandavilli shared how the Covid pandemic has changed the way she covers viruses, including H5N1, and what we need to know about the current bird flu outbreak.