Infectious diseases such as hantavirus and Ebola becoming more frequent and damaging, say experts

Photo: Around 70% of the graves at Waterloo cemetery near Freetown, Sierra Leone are Ebola victims. Photo taken November 5, 2015. Photo credit: Simon Davis / DFID via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Kat Lay. The Guardian – May 18, 2026.

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”. […]

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