Ali Al Shehri Saud, Al-Sulaiman A M, Azmi Sarfuddin, Alshehri Sultan S
Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi J Biol Sci. 2022 Jan;29(1):132-139. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.08.060. Epub 2021 Aug 30.
Besides its impacts on governance, economics, human culture, geostrategic partnership and environment, globalization greatly exerted control over science and security policies. Biosecurity is the critical job of efforts, policy and preparation to protect health of human, animal and environmental against any biological threats. With the transition into a global village, the possibility of biosecurity breaches has significantly increased. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of an infringement on biosecurity that has posed a serious threat to the world. Since the first report on the recognition of COVID-19, a number of governments have taken preventive measures, like; lockdown, screening and early detection of suspected and implementing the required response to protect the loss of life and economy. Unfortunately, some of these measures have only recently been taken in some countries, which have contributed significantly to an increased morbidity and loss of life on a daily basis. In this article, the biological risks affecting human, animal and environmental conditions, biosafety violations and preventive measures have been discussed in order to reduce the outbreak and impacts of a pandemic like COVID-19.
除了对治理、经济、人类文化、地缘战略伙伴关系和环境产生影响外,全球化还极大地影响了科学和安全政策。生物安全是保护人类、动物健康和环境免受任何生物威胁的努力、政策和准备工作中的关键任务。随着向地球村的转变,生物安全漏洞的可能性显著增加。新冠疫情就是侵犯生物安全的一个例子,它给世界带来了严重威胁。自首次报告确认新冠疫情以来,许多政府已采取预防措施,如封锁、筛查和早期发现疑似病例,并实施必要的应对措施以保护生命和经济损失。不幸的是,其中一些措施在一些国家直到最近才实施,这在很大程度上导致了每日发病率和生命损失的增加。在本文中,已讨论了影响人类、动物和环境状况的生物风险、生物安全违规行为和预防措施,以减少类似新冠疫情这样的大流行病的爆发及其影响。