Facing the threat of future pandemics

2020 was a devastating year for global health. Pandemics do not die-they fade away. The pandemics will bring indescribable tragedy across the globe. The best you can do is to not make it worse. Diagnosis of viruses is an increasing importance in the challenges for future pandemics. The early awareness of pandemic storm is to cut down morbidity and mortality. Pandemic aggregation of victims from infectious diseases is not new. Different disciplines Immunologists, Virologists, material scientists, Clinicians, natural scientists, engineering computational scientists, must work together to prepare for future pandemics.
Imperial College London's Institute of Infection aims to break down the barriers between medical, engineers, natural scientists and economists in the battle against infectious disease. We will need to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to fight for the future pandemics. Unforeseen, unpleasant, entirely unknown threats stand a challenge to researchers to prepare for a future infectious disease. The majority of emerging infectious diseases recorded in the last century were of zoonotic origin. Scientists and clinicians were not on the lookout for a life threatening retrovirus in 1980’s with a decade-long incubation period, but along came HIV/AIDS. Prions are not viruses but misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit several fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals. Prions cause of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease in 1980s. Prions are not even conventional pathogens, like bacteria, fungi, viruses, or parasites. Are we ready to detect and combat another one if it emerges? The universe scrambled the pandemic. Most of us are convinced that we will over power it. And yet we are all conscious that our collective shield was down when COVID-19 first emerged. We cannot manage to repeat this mistake. Teams will need to operate autonomously in a pandemic.Learn to plan and lead effective medical and public health responses.