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World failed to learn SARS lessons for coronavirus fight

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By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS

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Very colorful..but that’s the wrong comment right now.

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Scientists and research institutes are all about developing constantly things against emerging pathogens. Academic meetings related to infectious diseases always have at least one or two expositions about it, researchers work very hard if they can have their name included in a scientific paper reporting any kind of advance that can help future outbreaks.

The problem is that governments and funding agencies simply don't share that enthusiasm. It is very hard to find something useful if grant applications about it only get approved immediately after an outbreak and as soon as things go back to normal the money stops coming and laboratories have to switch into research that is easier to get funded.

Unfortunately its very likely this time will not be any different, lots of very promising papers published this year, a few the next, almost nothing from there on until the next big outbreak.

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You think this situation is bad? wait until the last remaining antibiotics fail. Without a huge push to find new ones there is going to be people dying from infections all over the world. Infected tooth, infected finger, infection from a simple operation. Medico's have been warning of overuse and not enough research for decades. It is a constant complaint.

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