‘World Not Becoming Safer’: Why Ebola, Hantavirus And Other Outbreaks Are Spreading Faster

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• ‘World Not Becoming Safer’: Why Ebola, Hantavirus And Other Outbreaks Are Spreading Faster Published By, Last Updated: May 19, 2026, 17:47 IST According to the report, several global trends are making infectious diseases more likely to spread rapidly across borders.
• The latest concerns centre around an Ebola outbreak in the DRC, where at least 87 deaths have already been reported.
• The world is becoming increasingly vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks, with illnesses such as Ebola, mpox and hantavirus spreading faster and becoming harder to contain amid climate change, conflict, weakened health systems and growing distrust in global cooperation.
• This stark warning was issued in a new report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) which said the world is “not yet meaningfully safer" despite the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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