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"The world is becoming less resilient to outbreaks of infectious diseases,
experts have warned, as health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola.
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) said in a report published on
Monday that “as infectious disease outbreaks become more frequent they are also
becoming more damaging”, warning that pandemic risk is outpacing investments in
preparedness and “the world is not yet meaningfully safer”.
Disease outbreaks are becoming more likely due to the climate crisis and armed
conflict, while collective action is being undermined by geopolitical
fragmentation and commercial self-interest, the report said.
The GPMB is a group of experts established in 2018 by the World Bank and the
World Health Organization (WHO) after the first large scale Ebola outbreak in
west Africa and just before Covid-19. Its latest findings come amid global
attention on the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship and a day after the
declaration of an international public health emergency after at least 87 Ebola
deaths in the DRC.
The two outbreaks “are just the latest crises in our troubled world”, WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening of the UN agency’s World Health
Assembly in Geneva."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
