WHO draft resolousion review
Zoonotic Diseases, which are transmitted from animal to human, pose significant health risks to global communities.
Despite the rise of zoonotic diseases, including a global pandemic caused by the zoonoses SARS-CoV-2, we rarely see any funding or research put into them due to the lack of public interest. Seeing that zoonoses commonly have a high virulence rate, once a disease starts, it gets out of hand very quickly.
April 5th, 2025. The World Health Organization gathered at the CAHSMUN conference to open discussion on zoonotic diseases. After four committees of discussion, the draft resolution 1.2 was passed.
Draft resolution 1.2 included several tactics to lower the rate of zoonoses spread and the damage it caused to communities, including expanding the list of animals covered by the Wildlife Act to prevent contracting, genome sequencing in farm animals to catch it early, distributing vaccines to at-risk communities, and managing overcrowding in large scale farms.
Despite the motion sounding like a miracle solution, the 1.2 resolution failed to mention how they would get funding for the project, besides calling out a few large countries that seemed uninterested.
Because of the lack of a financial solution, we can predict that the resolution will either not be enacted on in the near future or will not have the funding to be an effective program.
The education of zoonotics is the first step to preventing them, but we need the WHO to come to an effective consensus so that we can protect communities and countries at risk. Despite the incentive that a global pandemic provides, it seems that zoonotic diseases are still not getting the attention they need.