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Health officials from around the world will meet to discuss pandemic readiness next week, but divisions are already clear around funding for the developing world

with pharmaceutical companies to reserve vaccines for future pandemics. The agreements led critics to accuse the bloc of"vaccine apartheid."

Already struggling for resources to strengthen their public health systems, governments of developing nations need even more funds if they are to invest in prevention. That could include measures like improved surveillance for , efforts to combat deforestation and more oversight of development in areas that could be prone to new spillover.

But as a far-reaching and sometimes abstract concept,"One Health" measures could be costly to put into practice.Lower income countries don't want to make obligations unless they get funding. Higher income countries are resistant to guaranteeing funds Flames and smoke blanket the jungle in a forest fire in the Brazilian amazon. Deforestation is cited as one of the potential flashpoints for pandemic originationWe live in this interconnected world and any pathogen that emerges on one part of the planet could be in another within 24 to 48 hours

The Americas alone are home to 29% of the high-risk areas, more than half of which are in Brazil. Much of the risk there is driven by deforestation in the Amazon, the world's largest rainforest

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