World Health Organization rethinks its response to disease outbreaks : Nature News & Comment

World Health Organization rethinks its response to disease outbreaks : Nature News & Comment

World Health Organization rethinks its response to disease outbreaks

Programme aims to prevent crises similar to the recent Ebola epidemic.

• Erika Check Hayden

20 December 2016

Three years after the start of the world’s worst Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has created a programme to improve its response to disease outbreaks and to prevent another such calamity.