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Impact of hypothetical infectious disease outbreak in US exports and export-based jobs

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Bambery Z, Cassell CH, Bennell RE et al.

Full Citation:

Bambery Z, Cassell CH, Bennell RE et al. 2018. Impact of hypothetical infectious disease outbreak in US exports and export-based jobs. Health Security. 16.

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Additional key concepts from this publication:

Disease outbreaks significantly impact a country’s economy due to productivity losses and impact on the tourism, import and transportation industries.

Key Evidence: In an analysis of a hypothetical disease outbreak scenario, based on data from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, researchers estimated that a large-scale disease outbreak spreading to nine Asian countries could cost the US economy $8-41 billion in lost exports and put almost 1.4 million export-related US jobs at risk.

Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases have costly impacts on health systems and governments.

Key Evidence: According to the World Bank, the economic impact of the 2014-15 Ebola epidemic outlasted the epidemiological impact of outbreak, resulting in estimated losses of US$2.8 billion in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone (or 16% of their combined GDP).