World Health Organization

The meeting comes as WHO/Europe’s own assessment – the most comprehensive ever conducted on AI readiness across the WHO European Region – reveals a striking gap between ambition and governance: nearly two thirds of countries are already deploying AI ...

Once in use, it calls for living evidence workflows that pair automated retrieval with human verification, human-in-the-loop decision gateways, and multidisciplinary oversight panels combining domain, methods and ethics expertise.

As things stand, all hypotheses must remain on the table, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak. [...] the weight of available evidence…suggests zoonotic spillover…either directly from bats or through an intermediate host.