; (B) novel coronavirus disease (COVID), which, as of February 12, 2020, had infected at least 45,000 people in at least 25 countries, resulting in more than 1,100 deaths in China; (C) yellow fever virus; (D) cholera; (E) avian influenza virus (H7N9); (F) novel Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus; and (G) Zika virus. (8) The costs of new, reemerging, and zoonotic infections are high in human and financial terms. For example— (A) the anthrax attacks in the eastern United States in late 2001 infected 22 people, killed 5, and cost more than $1,000,000,000 to clean up; (B) an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) originating in southern China in late 2002 infected more than 8,000 people, resulted in 774 deaths, and had an economic impact estimated at $30,000,000,000 in only a few months; (C) the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 284,000 people in a single year; and (D) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) spread silently for decades before detection, has led to the death of 35,000,000 people, and currently affects 37,000,000 people who are living with the virus. (9) The enormous costs of pandemics can be averted with strategic investment in capacity building and preparedness. (10) The Global Health Security Agenda, which was launched in February 2014 in partnership with countries from around the world, is designed— (A) to measurably address global vulnerability to infectious diseases; (B) to strengthen systems; and (C) to ensure that a trained workforce has the tools needed to prevent, detect, and respond rapidly and effectively to infectious disease threats. (11) Stopping an outbreak at its source, whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental, requires close collaboration among the health, animal, agriculture, defense, security, development, commercial, and other sectors. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) advancing global health security is a core tenet of our national strategy for countering biological threats