Chinese people’s open letter to the World Health Organization
Respected World Health Organization: In the past year, the terrible COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the world. It made thousands of millions of people infected with the deadly virus, and claimed the lives of millions of people. Therefore, addressing ways to prevent the next pandemic is one of the key agendas of the ongoing 74th World Health Assembly. We, as Chinese people, also care profoundly about this issue. This is not only because China was the first country that detected the pandemic and warned the world of the coming plague, but also because we Chinese people were the first to experience the dreadfulness of the pandemic and the misery of losing lives. We believe that in order to prevent the next pandemic, labs that research dangerous viruses and even bio-weapons should be given particular attention at the WHA. Among them, the US Army’s Fort Detrick lab worries us the most. It stocks the world’s most deadly and infectious viruses such as Ebola, Variola, SARS, MERS viruses, an...