The FAO, the WHO and the World Organization for Animal Health should "take a leading role in finding a definitive solution to the problem, he stressed," the U.N. News Centre writes. He said, "We must stop hopping from one crisis situation to the next ... We have to do a better job of forecasting and monitoring the drivers that promote the emergence and spread of diseases, and institute improved risk management. We must be able to tackle problems at source before they become regional, continental or global threats" (4/16).

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