UN Secretary -General Gutres said in an informal report to all member states at the United Nations headquarters of New York on January 22 that human beings are currently facing the four major threats and may endanger the development of the 21st century.These four threats include global tension, climate change crisis, intensified global distrust, and negative effects of digital technology.
To this end, Getres prescribed four prescriptions.First, the international community should take coherent coordination actions, prevent and mediate conflicts, maintain peace, consolidate peace, to achieve long -term development.The second is to vigorously strengthen measures to respond to climate change. The main emissions of greenhouse gas should reduce carbon emissions with greater efforts before the 26th UN climate change conference in November this year.The third is to establish a fair globalization, and the United Nations has launched a 10 -year action operation of sustainable development.Fourth, we must guide technology to develop in a positive direction, crack down on cyber crimes and network hatred, incorporate network space into the rule of law, and prohibit dangerous artificial intelligence technology such as independent weapons.
As the Secretary -General of the United Nations, it has its own perspective of the problem.However, compared with, there is actually one that is an imminent threat today, that is, the disease, which pose a threat to everyone’s life and health. No matter which country, especially in developing countries, the disease is the biggest.threaten.Therefore, in terms of the urgent threat facing today, the disease should be ranked first.
The threat of the disease to humans is also the first place in history, even more than the threat of the war to humans.There were 35 million soldiers and civilians in the First World War, of which about 15 million were killed and 20 million were injured.The number of deaths includes 10 million soldiers and 7 million civilians.About 6 million soldiers died in the Alliance, and about 4 million soldiers died in the contract.
However, the world's major influenza (Spanish influenza) that occurred at the end of the World War I was caught by 20 million to 40 million lives worldwide.Because there were 10 sedents at the time, many soldiers brought this disease back to China after the influenza, which caused a major outbreak of domestic influenza.At that time, there were no special effects of influenza, and there was no vaccine, so death was heavy.Even if the number of casualties in World War I was added, it may only be equivalent to the life that was taken away at the time.
Although today, the level of medical care has greatly improved, and the significant development of molecular biology and genomics allows people to understand and prevent diseases more; and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can also help people and better cure diseases.However, with the advent of the information age and the fourth industrial revolution, on the one hand, people's lifestyles have changed greatly. Sluent diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.) are also increasing.Sexual diseases have not retired before human technology and treatment methods, and sometimes it seems to be worse and unscrupulous.The overlap of chronic diseases and infectious diseases has made diseases the biggest threat to human beings today.
In 2019, Ipora (a hemorrhagic infectious disease caused by Ebola virus) was popular in the Congo again. As of August 15 of that year, the World Health Organization (WHO) had a total of 2512 cases of Ipora. Among them, the diagnosis was 2418.For example, there were 1676 deaths, and the number of confirmed cases of the deceased was 1,582 cases.
The mortality rate of Ebola's bleeding and fever is as high as 50%to 90%, and it has repeatedly invaded humans.From 2013 to 2016, the Ipora epidemic in West Africa took more than 11,000 people's lives. At that time, it was announced by WHO to constitute an international concern public health incident;Urcented public health events.
Nevertheless, the infectious diseases that occur on human life and healthy threats on human society that occur on human society, which occurs on human society, is equivalent to the global geopolitics tension and the situation of the world's geographical strategy and the situation of the disease of the disease each year.The life captured by the war.
To this day, human beings are still unclear, and there are no effective drugs and vaccines. They can only watch the illness of the illness suddenly coming, and after taking the countless life, they retreat.Obviously, how to prevent epidemic diseases, and how to mobilize and invest more manpower, resources, funds, and technology to develop drugs and vaccines in order to overcome diseases that seriously threaten people's lives, protect people's health and life, it is also necessary for the United Nations to needCaring and taking action, even the first action.
For the public in China, the disease (the collective name that occurs in people, animals, and infectious diseases) is the largest threat.This is not only reflected in the expensive medical treatment and the difficulty of seeing the doctor. The medical expenses are too high. If you get a serious illness, you will lose your family. At the same time, it is reflected in the spread of scientific knowledge that people can get a healthy lifestyle.The disease also came out to make a wave.The new crown virus is a good proof.
At present, the new type of coronary virus pneumonia is from Wuhan and China Seafood Market. The reason is that the Chinese love to eat spessy, which causes the virus to from animals to humans, which will cause people to become ill.The genetic mutations and pathogenic forces of the virus, and what animals this virus comes from, also needs further research to confirm.However, the new research has gradually unveiled the veil, from the just doubtful bamboo rats, crickets and civets, to the current snake.
Just published in Journal of Medical Virology. The same reorganization of homologous reorganization entitled new coronary virus proteins may promote the transmission of cross -object transmission from snakes to people.Animals of coronary virus pneumonia.The South China Seafood Market is sold in live snakes.
Whether in China or the international community, whether in the past or in the future, the urgent threat facing human beings is epidemic, not just China, other countries and international communities should first pay attention to and take various means to solve and alleviate this.Great threat.
I hope that in the future, China can defeat the great enemy of new coronary virus pneumonia, and keep in mind the mistakes of the lesson and new coronary virus pneumonia.
(The author is a Beijing scholar)
