On Tuesday at the UAE global health conference, Richard Feachem, professor of global health at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, discussed enhanced global capability to cope with future pandemics, ArabianBusiness reports. "If swine flu becomes highly virulent, things could become much worse ... Global governance for pandemic preparedness is in poor shape, and is not in place to allow countries to join hands and cope," Feachem said. "Globally we should be ready for early identification of these new pandemics, and have in place containment and coping methods," he added (Bladd, 1/6).

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