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New biosecurity centre to tackle pandemics and animal disease gets £1bn funding
- A £1 billion investment will fund a new national biosecurity centre to combat animal diseases and future pandemics, according to the Government.
- About 60% of human infectious diseases can be transmitted from animals, underscoring the urgent need for enhanced biosecurity measures.
- This project aims to enhance measures for controlling high-risk animal diseases and will be operational by 2033-34.
- Environment Secretary Steve Reed stated that national security is the government's top priority, marking this funding as a 'record investment' after years of underfunding.
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Prepared for what comes in the form of future pandemics. It is the reflection launched by experts in wildlife health that these days mark the roadmap of responses to possible pandemics that take place in the future. These experts find themselves these days in Gran Canaria in a meeting coordinated by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WHOA) looking for those possible responses to the growing health threats that affect animals and, by exten…
The Centre de Recerca en Salut Animal (CReSA), located on the campus of the Universitat Autònoma (UAB), will be expanded with an installation of 3,000 square meters of high safety to do research with viruses and other dangerous pathogens.Continue reading...
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