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Ebola and the Catastrophic Cost of Public Health Infrastructure Disinvestment

JAMA Health Forum 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2026.3633

August 06, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This JAMA Forum discusses aspects of the Ebola outbreak, including erosion of disease surveillance, transactional global health security, and cost inefficiencies.

Corresponding Author: Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 (gostin@georgetown.edu).

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