Where will the next major infectious disease outbreak occur?

Macroecologists are altering the health and medical community over a serious lack of data on the worldwide distribution of disease-causing organisms. This paucity of information will happen responses to the next global epidemic. Two research groups have called for concerted global government action over the serious lack of data relating the worldwide distribution of disease-causing organisms. Without improved knowledge, the scientists warn, then predicting where and when the next disease outbreak will emerge is hampered. This, in turn, stops prevention or preparedness for the next infectious agent world health issue. Macroecologists say that a new data network is needed in order to reduce the knowledge gap. Macroecology is the subfield of ecology that deals with the study of relationships between organisms and their environment at large spatial scales to characterise and explain statistical patterns of abundance, distribution and diversity. The research teams herald from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen...