id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-339218-zobx4rw6 Gao, George F. For a better world: Biosafety strategies to protect global health 2019-06-30 .txt text/plain 2291 126 45 Due to globalization, biological threats have the potential to spread rapidly from one country to many others in a short amount of time, resulting in epidemics/pandemics, psychological trauma and economic and social breakdown [1] . Other epidemics included the emergence/re-emergence of H5N1 influenza (1997, 2003) [5, 6] , Vibrio cholerae in Haiti (2010), pandemic "swine flu" H1N1 (2009), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) (2012), Ebola virus disease in West Africa (2014), and Yersinia pestis in Madagascar (2017). Additionally, we also face the impact of emerging plant and animal diseases on agricultural production (the most recent being African Swine Fever virus in China), which have world-wide implications despite not posing a direct threat to human health. The proper and timely sharing of biosafety achievements, including infectious diseases prevention and control, AMR, genome editing, and synthetic biotechnology, will promote the capacity of all the partners to control current and future biological-related threats, guaranteeing human health. ./cache/cord-339218-zobx4rw6.txt ./txt/cord-339218-zobx4rw6.txt