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And violent conflict remains widespread, with the world’s poorest regions the most vulnerable to
outbreaks.
Although the Balkan countries that are outside the EU will remain there for many years, they are in the European security space already, and Europeans should be prepared to intervene militarily if
outbreaks
of violence recur.
These cramped cities are ideal incubators for
outbreaks
of emerging infectious diseases like Ebola.
With greater trade and travel to the region,
outbreaks
are likely to spread before international containment can coalesce.
In theory, it is possible to contain a flu pandemic in its early stages by performing “ring prophylaxis” – using anti-flu drugs and quarantine aggressively to isolate relatively small
outbreaks
of a human-to-human transmissible strain of H5N1.
Failure to contain local outbreaks, develop tools and strategies for identifying and treating XDR-TB, and invest in longer-term improvements in TB control could transform our pharmacological magic bullets for TB into blanks.
Are similar localized
outbreaks
going unrecognized elsewhere?
The vast majority of avian flu
outbreaks
in the past four years, in both humans and poultry, have occurred in Indonesia.
Worse, Indonesia is no longer providing the WHO with timely notification of bird flu
outbreaks
or human cases.
Equally important, the program provides farmers with the training needed to confront increasingly frequent
outbreaks
of crop diseases.
That information can go directly onto public-health dashboards, which health managers can use to spot disease outbreaks, failures in supply chains, or the need to bolster technical staff.
Toilet-building campaigns are underway, but much more is needed to reduce the risk of waterborne-disease
outbreaks.
Fortunately, the notion of sovereign obligation is already advanced in this sphere: countries are responsible for trying to detect infectious disease outbreaks, responding appropriately, and notifying others around the world.
For example, the Bank completely fumbled the exploding pandemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria during the 1990’s, failing to get help to where it was needed to curb these
outbreaks
and save millions of lives.
And it is why an entirely preventable disease like malaria kills 600,000 people each year; many are too poor to buy drugs and bed nets, while governments are often too poor to eradicate the mosquitos that carry the disease or contain and treat
outbreaks
when they occurs.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, researchers have found a strong correlation between three decades of rising temperatures and
outbreaks
of civil war.
And their myriad interdependencies increase the risks of transnational threats, such as disease outbreaks, and resource-related confrontations.
This would provide countries with weak health-care systems – which are particularly susceptible to disease
outbreaks
– with the human resources they need to bring health crises quickly under control.
Achieving this requires providing the needed investment; after all, effective national health systems and agile surveillance are the first lines of defense against
outbreaks
of disease.
The country has already witnessed
outbreaks
of violence in its recent history.
Some will hold the EU and the measures “imposed by Brussels” responsible for the
outbreaks
of social unrest.
In both El Nino and the hurricane, increased
outbreaks
of infectious disease followed natural disasters.
For decades, health officials have understood how to prevent the disease, doctors have known how to treat it, and development experts have recognized that with clean water and sanitation,
outbreaks
rarely become epidemics.
By sharing the knowledge and expertise that we have developed over decades of diarrheal disease management and research, we are playing a leading role in global efforts to tackle
outbreaks.
In the ensuing conflict, refugees poured across the border into neighboring India into crowded camps, creating conditions that inevitably gave rise to cholera
outbreaks.
We have also worked with the WHO to secure some 900,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV), an internationally accepted tool to prevent and control
outbreaks.
But time and again, researchers and health workers in Bangladesh have demonstrated their expertise at containing cholera
outbreaks
and saving lives.
Although it will not solve the TB crisis overnight, it is a chance finally to elevate TB to the World Health Organization-designated status of a “public health emergency of international concern,” as was done in wake of the Ebola and Zika
outbreaks.
There are many ways that international institutions can use economic-policy levers to reduce significantly the probability of infectious-disease outbreaks, and to increase vulnerable countries’ resilience to such risks.
As Peter Sands and his colleagues show in a May 2016 study in The Lancet, infectious-disease
outbreaks
have far-reaching economic costs, and yet they are rarely, if ever, factored into assessments of macroeconomic risk.
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