Reinvigorating our system for international health
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock sets out his priorities for the UK’s G7 presidency.
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In 1832, the London Quarterly Review stated that:
We have witnessed the birth of a new pestilence, which in the short space of 14 years has desolated the fairest portions of the globe, and swept off at least 50 million.
It has mastered every variety of climate, surmounted every natural barrier, and conquered every people.
That was in 1832 and that new pestilence was cholera, which brought devastation across the world.
At first, nations turned inwards, and responded alone but after 3 consecutive cholera pandemics in 30 years, accelerated by growing industrialisation, urbanisation and global trade, countries soon realised that infectious diseases could no longer be handled as a domestic issue alone.