LONDON: Investing less then $0.72 a year for each person would make the world far more resilient to potentially devastating infectious disease pandemics, according to a global health expert group convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis.
A report by the Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, published on Wednesday, said infectious diseases are one of the biggest risks facing humankind -- matching wars and natural disasters in their capacity to endanger human life, health and society.