The highest -level alert triggering the monkey acne epidemic, how to build a national biological safety barrier?

Li Yunshu, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, reported that on July 23, the World Health Organization announced that monkey acne epidemic in many countries and regions constituted "international concerns of emergencies."

This is the seventh time that the WHO announced the seventh time that the WTO has announced the "emergencies in international attention." In January 2020, WHO announced the new crown pneumonia's epidemic situation constituted "internationally concerned emergencies." The concept of "biological safety" once again entered the public vision.

Biological safety is related to the health of the people's lives, the country's long -term stability, and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. It is an important part of the overall security of the country, and it is also an important force that affects and even reshape the world pattern. At present, traditional biological safety issues and new biological safety risks are superimposed, and overseas biological threats coexist with internal biological risks. In the face of challenges, what is the biological safety situation in my country? How to strengthen biological safety construction? The reporter interviewed.

For this monkey acne epidemic, the public should keep attention but don’t panic

"Internationally concerned emergencies" is the highest -level alert issued by WHO.

On July 23, the Director -General of the WHO Tan Dezai said that the evaluation believes that the risk of the monkey acne epidemic is at a high risk in Europe and other regions except Europe. There are still obvious risks of further international communication.

Since May this year, there have been cases of monkey acne in many countries around the world. The latest reports of the WHO show that the number of cases of acne diagnosis of monkey acne has exceeded 16,000 cases, and more than 70 countries that have affected, most of which come from countries that have no local acne in the past.

Recently, the Website of the Customs Department issued the "Announcement on Preventing Monkey Acne Extratering in my country", which requires people from the state of acne epidemic, such as exposure to the case of monkey acne or fever, headache, muscle soreness, back pain, lymphatic swelling , Symptoms such as facial and body rash, and should actively declare to the customs when entering the country.

For the people of our country, what does monkey acne epidemic mean? On July 24th, the public account of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University "Huashan Infection" published an article on the issue of monkey acne epidemic. Wang Xinyu, deputy chief physician of Huashan Hospital Infectious Department, pointed out in the article: "For ordinary people, everyone for this monkey acne epidemic, It should be paid attention to, but you don't have to panic. "He said that from the perspective of this popular situation, the current mortality rate in the non -influx area is zero. Everyone continues to maintain good personal hygiene habits. While taking measures such as masks and hand -wash hands in public, if there are fever or rash, they should go to a regular hospital in time.

At present, the international community's biological safety situation is complicated, especially the pressure on the prevention and control of new and sudden infectious diseases. In January of this year, the World Economic Forum released the 2022 Global Risk Report stating that "infectious diseases" ranked sixth in the world's top ten risks in the next decade, and also considered the world's most important short -term risk one.

The relationship between man and nature is always the main line of the development of human civilization. Biological safety is closely related to the survival and development of human beings

After the epidemic of new coronary pneumonia, people generally have a perceptual understanding of bioda, but lack a clear understanding of the specific concept of biological safety.

What is biological safety?

"Biological safety refers to the country's effective prevention and response to the threats of risk biological threats and related factors to ensure that biotechnology can stabilize and develop, and the people's life and health system are relatively in a state of no danger and not threatened. The ability to continue development. "Zhang Weiwen, director of the Tianjin University Biological Safety Strategy Research Center, told reporters.

In addition to the most familiar new development and sudden infectious disease epidemic, biological safety also has a wider connotation. For example, the invasion of regional species, the extinction of animals and plant species, etc., belong to the category of biological safety, but also attribute to the category of ecological safety.

The Red List of Endangered Species updated by the World Nature Protection Alliance (IUCN) showed that the Yangtze River Baiya has been extinct. The picture shows the white -cricket specimen in the aquatic biological museum of the Aquatic Biological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Picture source: Vision China)

In fact, biological safety problems have long existed in the long history of human beings. Throughout the history of human society, it is a history of dealing with nature and nature. The relationship between man and nature is always the main line of the development of human civilization. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that man and nature are the community of life. Human beings must respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature. The recent frequent biological safety issues in the world have prompted us to deeply think about how to build a control system for coordinated development of people and nature in the construction of ecological civilization.

Without biological safety, there is no national security, and many countries include biological safety into the national strategy

How to understand the status of biological safety in national security? Wang Xiaoli, a researcher at the Shanghai Bastel Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that biological safety is an emerging field and strategic field of national security. It penetrates, interacts, and conducts each other in other areas of national security. The influence of development has the characteristics of global, cross -intensiveness, and strategic characteristics. "It can be said that there is no national safety without biological safety."

The United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries or regions combined their own characteristics to formulate strategic measures to respond to biological safety issues such as biological warfare, biological terror, infectious disease epidemic, laboratory biological safety, and biotechnology fallacy. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has put more prominent positions to strengthen the construction of biological safety, incorporates the national security strategy, improves the leadership system and mechanism of the national biological safety work organization, actively responds to the major risk of biological safety, and continuously consolidates the foundation of biological safety. Biological safety construction has achieved historic achievements. On April 15, 2021, the Biological Safety Law of the People's Republic of China was officially implemented. This is a basic, comprehensive, systematic, and leading law in the field of biological safety in my country. Its promulgation marks a new stage of biological safety entering according to law. "Trinity" biological safety risk prevention and control and governance system.

China Customs strengthens the construction of national safety risk prevention and control and governance systems, weave and woven secret monitoring and early warning networks, strengthen system governance and full -chain prevention and control, and achieve early discretion, early warning, early response, and build a national biological safety barrier. The picture shows the customs supervision area of ​​Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and customs staff are inspected high -risk express mail. (Picture source: People's Vision)

"According to this law, the current biological safety includes 7 specific content: first, prevent and control major new causes of new sudden infectious diseases, animal and plant epidemic; second, biotechnology research, development and application; third, pathogenic microorganism laboratory biological safety Management; Fourth, the safety management of human genetic resources and biological resources; fifth is to prevent foreign species invasion and protect biological diversity; sixth is to deal with microbial drug resistance; seventh to prevent biological terrorist attacks and defense biological weapons threats. "Zhang Weiwen introduced.

China is actively participating in the response to biological safety risks in the international community, reflecting the responsibility of the great country

Under the influence of the new coronary pneumonia's epidemic, the field of biological safety has become a global cutting -edge, breakthrough, disruptive technology gathering place and the main battlefield. In the face of biological safety potential risks, how should we keep our biological safety defense line?

"For example, the situation of newly developed infectious diseases has not been fundamentally changed, and its spread and dissemination speed is increasing. In addition, the actual threat of biological weapons and biological terrorism, the development of subversion technological development has caused new biological safety threats, key product equipment equipment and equipment equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment and equipment of biological safety. The major infrastructure and other issues are still relatively backward, the reserves of the biological safety professionals team are not enough, and they need to be solved urgently. "Zhang Weiwen suggested that it should further strengthen and implement the top -level design and strategic planning, improve the system of biological safety supervision, and increase related finances at the same time. Investment, accelerate the construction of biological safety early warning platforms, and improve the training system for biological safety talents.

Biological safety has both the core interests of the country, but also one of the major survival and development issues facing all human beings all over the world. The new coronary pneumonia's epidemic has once again realized that this is an era of traditional safety and non -traditional safety interweaving, and an era when local issues and global issues transform each other. It is impossible for any country to be alone.

For a long time, my country has actively participated in the response to biological safety risks in the international community. "China has helped save the lives of thousands of people around the world with actual actions, showing China's sincere desire to promote the establishment of a community of human destiny." Wang Xiaoli introduced that my country has concluded or participated in the "Geneva Convention", "Prohibition of Biological Weapon Convention", "The Convention on Biological Weapons", " A series of international treaties, including the Biological Diversity Convention "" Capaya Biological Safety Protocol ", actively participate in the research and formulation of biological safety exchanges and cooperation, international rescue of biological safety incidents, and participate in the research and formulation of international rules of biological safety, promote the improvement of global biological safety Governance. In addition, we establish a sense of community of human destiny, promote the construction of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the preparation of the international cooperation biological laboratory, and the release of the "China Action of Anti -New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic". The big country is responsible.

Last July, with the joint efforts of governments and scientific communities in various countries, the "Tianjin Guide of Scientists Biological Safety Behavior" was officially reached. "This is the latest achievement of the international community's promotion of responsible biological research. It begins with China initiative and belongs to the world. China welcomes all stakeholders to voluntarily adopt the" Tianjin Guide "to jointly promote biotechnology in a healthier and safe direction. Develop. "Zhang Weiwen said.

Wang Xiaoli suggested that in the future, my country should formulate and launch a measure of global health and safety or biological safety cooperation plans, coordinate and deeply participate in global biological safety governance measures, and systematically optimize China's participation in global biological safety governance and international cooperation strategies.

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