Global Biological Threats: Novel Tools and Multi‑Disciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised awareness of future biological
threats, how we can prepare and develop mitigation strategies.
Technology has allowed us to quickly identify the pathogen, map its evolution
in real time and develop scores of vaccines within months. This
review looks at disease threats from a perspective of human development,
and the futuristic technologies that may help in the fight. Most
importantly, cooperation across political and ideological boundaries
would be needed in a highly inter-connected world. A new disease
emerging anywhere is a threat everywhere.