{"id":6459,"date":"2026-11-02T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/ebola-reminder-of-urgent-need-to-finish-pandemic-treaty-who-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:46:06","slug":"ebola-reminder-of-urgent-need-to-finish-pandemic-treaty-who-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/ebola-reminder-of-urgent-need-to-finish-pandemic-treaty-who-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola reminder of urgent need to finish pandemic treaty: WHO chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ghebreyesus.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"2023, year of achievements, \u201cavoidable suffering\u201d \u2013 WHO chief\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ghebreyesus.webp 600w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ghebreyesus-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deadly outbreaks like the Ebola epidemic raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo show the urgent need to complete an international pandemic treaty, the World Health Organization chief said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealthy countries and developing nations remain at loggerheads over how an agreement, adopted last year as a framework to handle future Covid-like pandemics, will work in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the ninth meeting towards finalising the deal opened in Geneva Monday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to \u201cfinish the job\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pointing to several recent deadly disease outbreaks, he stressed that completing a pandemic treaty was \u201cabout protecting people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA pathogen threat anywhere can become a threat everywhere, to people of every country,\u201d he said, according to a written version of his statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe outbreak of hantavirus earlier this year, and the ongoing Ebola epidemic in DRC remind us of this threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was referring to the hantavirus outbreak that killed three people on a cruise ship in April and the latest Ebola outbreak, declared in May, which has killed nearly 5,000 people out of more than 10,000 infected mostly in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was vital, Tedros said, that the world learn the overarching lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic: \u201cno country can protect itself from pandemics by acting alone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When countries agreed in May 2025 to a Pandemic Agreement, they left out the tricky issue of how the key mechanism would operate to get the deal over the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement\u2019s Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system covers how to share access to pathogens with pandemic potential, as well as benefits derived from them such as vaccines, tests and treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPABS is the last remaining piece of our puzzle,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Covid pandemic, he highlighted that \u201cthe world developed vaccines in record time, but too many countries were left waiting while others secured far more than they needed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat inequity cost lives, prolonged the pandemic and increased the risk of new variants emerging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Completing the final piece of the pandemic treaty, he insisted, was \u201cthe key that will unlock the door to a safer future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/ebola-reminder-of-urgent-need-to-finish-pandemic-treaty-who-chief\/\">Ebola reminder of urgent need to finish pandemic treaty: WHO chief<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly outbreaks like the Ebola epidemic raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo show the urgent need to complete an international pandemic treaty, the World Health Organization chief said Monday.&hellip; 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