A professor of Public Well being Microbiology and Parasitology, Abdulazeez Abubakar, has referred to as on governments in any respect ranges to be ready for extra epidemics and pandemics sooner or later.
Whereas delivering the sixth inaugural lecture of the College of Medical Sciences, Ondo State, Abubakar urged that measures able to tackling such well being disasters ought to be put in place.
Talking on the Laje Campus of the College, the well being professional in his lecture titled “A world held hostage by microbes: Exploring the methods out of captivity,” the well being professional highlighted the ravaging results of microbes and attainable options to alleviate the havoc wreaked on the hosts.
The don additionally explored numerous microbial arsenals for assault and protection as instruments for human hostages, similar to possession of beta-lactamase enzyme, manufacturing of serotoxins, and presence of H antigen, amongst others.
In response to him, his analysis expertise had led to vital contributions in direction of exploring methods out of microbial captivity, including that “microbes are all over the place round us: within the air, water, and land, residing in our meals, drinks, meats, bathroom door handles, wash-hand basins, and toothbrushes.
“Due to this fact they’re able to wreaking havoc on their hosts if good private hygiene and environmental sanitation are insufficient to manage, include, and curtail them.”
Whereas emphasizing that “we can not afford to be caught unawares once more!”, he lamented on the earlier expertise from the latest COVID-19 pandemic and different rising ailments similar to Ebola and Lassa.
He added {that a} conducive surroundings have to be offered for productive analysis by the federal government, and researchers additionally should try in direction of multidisciplinary collaborations domestically and globally in order to be free from a world held hostage by microbes.
